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Interval Research Corporation

Field	Value
name	Interval Research Corporation
logo	Interval logo.png
type	Research think tank
fate	Dissolved
foundation	1992
defunct	2000
location	Palo Alto, U.S.
industry	Research and Development
key_people	Paul Allen (Chairman)
David Liddle (CEO, President)
num_employees	More than 110

David Liddle (CEO, President) Interval Research Corporation was founded in 1992 by Paul Allen and David Liddle. It was a Palo Alto laboratory and technology incubator focusing on consumer product applications and services with a focus on the Internet.

A 1997 version of the company's web page described itself as "a research setting seeking to define the issues, map out the concepts and create the technology that will be important in the future.... [pursuing] basic innovations in a number of early-stage technologies and [seeking] to foster industries around them – sparking opportunity for entrepreneurs and highlighting a new approach to research.".

A 1999 Wired magazine article based on a memo from Paul Allen described the company as under fire from Allen to produce "less R and more D." Interval Research Corporation officially closed its doors in April 2000, while a small group of former employees were kept on to form Interval Media to continue a few specific projects. Interval Media was closed in June, 2006.

Former employees

During its brief existence, Interval employed many well-known computer technology pioneers and experts, including:

Denise Caruso, technology journalist
Franklin C. Crow, inventor of important anti-aliasing techniques
Sally Cruikshank, filmmaker and animator
Marc Davis, founder of Yahoo! Research Berkeley
Trevor Darrell, faculty at University of California, Berkeley and co-inventor of Caffe
Paul Debevec, computer graphics researcher
Bruce Donald, geometer and animation researcher (computer graphics), co-inventor (with Tom Ngo) of Embedded Constraint Graphics
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch
Rolf Faste, Stanford design professor, who led the team that named the corporation "Interval Research"
Lee Felsenstein, designer of the first mass-produced portable computer
Paul Freiberger, Silicon Valley journalist
Russell Ginns, game designer and author
Don Hopkins, new-media artist, The Sims developer and pie menu interface designer
Dan Ingalls, inventor of BitBLT and architect of several Smalltalk implementations
Brenda Laurel, author, entrepreneur, virtual-reality artist
Golan Levin, new-media artist
Daniel Levitin, cognitive neuroscientist, best-selling author
David Liddle, venture capitalist
Max Mathews, acoustician, computer music pioneer
Michael Naimark, new-media artist
John R. Pierce, electrical engineer, pioneer in satellite telecommunication and a refiner of the original traveling wave tube
Arati Prabhakar, Science and Technology Advisor to President Biden
David P. Reed, inventor of TCP/IP
Dean Radin, a parapsychologist
Robert Shaw, physicist and chaos theory pioneer
Dick Shoup, computer graphics pioneer
Malcolm Slaney, research scientist at Google, IEEE Fellow
Gillian Crampton Smith, founder of the Computer-Related Design program at the Royal College of Art in London, and the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy.
Scott Snibbe, new-media artist
Russell Targ, a physicist and parapsychologist
Bill Verplank, interface designer of the Xerox Star, the first WIMP (computing) GUI
Leo Villareal, installation artist and Burning Man board member
Terry Winograd, emeritus professor of computer science at Stanford University

References

"WTO Board Bio: David Liddle".
[https://web.archive.org/web/19971012120741/http://www.interval.com/about/ Interval Research Corporation – About] – Page (From:13-November-1996)
Bass, Thomas A.. (Dec 1999). "Think Tanked". Wired Magazine.
[http://www.cs.duke.edu/brd/Patents/ngo-donald99.pdf System for Image Manipulation and Animation Using Embedded Constraint Graphics. J. T. Ngo and B. R. Donald. U.S. Patent #5,933,150, issued August 3, 1999.]
[https://www.cs.duke.edu/brd/papers/src-papers/Siggraph2000/ngo-donald-siggraph2000.pdf Accessible Animation and Customizable Graphics via Simplicial Configuration Modeling. T. Ngo, D. Cutrell, J. Dana, B. R. Donald, L. Loeb, and S. Zhu. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH (New Orleans) July, 2000, pp. 403–410.]
"Board of Directors".
Searcey, Dionne. (August 28, 2010). "Microsoft Co-Founder Launches Patent War". [[The Wall Street Journal]].

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