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Jaron Lanier
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, futurist, and composer. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and va…
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business · American computer scientist, musician, and author · computer scientist · composer · programmer · writer · essayist · university teacher · artificial intelligence researcher · businessperson · philosopher · pianist · also Jaron Lanier, Jaron Zepel Lanier, Lanier
Born 3 May 1960 · Q92862
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s like one encyclopedia. Some of us might remember when on paper there was both an Encyclopedia Britannica and Encyclopedia Americana and they provided different perspectives. The notion of having the perfect encyclopedia is just weird. Music As a musician, Lanier has been active since the late 1970s in the world of contemporary classical music, sometimes known as
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2026· 2 entries
“s like one encyclopedia. Some of us might remember when on paper there was both an Encyclopedia Britannica and Encyclopedia Americana and they provided different perspectives. The notion of having the perfect encyclopedia is just weird. Music As a musician, Lanier has been active since the late 1970s in the world of contemporary classical music, sometimes known as”
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2023· 1 entry
Lainer made a guest appearance as a pianist onstage at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California, improvising at John Zorn's 70th Birthday celebration along with Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson, Dave Lomba
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2021· 1 entry
To talk about his views on AI, social media, VR and the future of humanity
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2018· 2 entries
Promoting his book Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
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Wired named Lanier one of the top 25 most influential people over the last 25 years of technological history
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2014· 4 entries
Awarded Goldsmith Book Prize (2014).
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Awarded Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (2014).
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Prospect named Lanier one of the top 50 World Thinkers
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Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2014
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Innate or Adaptive Immunity? The Example of Natural Killer Cells” in Science — cited 2,310 times.
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2010).
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Lanier was named to the TIME 100 list of most influential people
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Honorary doctorate from Franklin and Marshall College in 2012
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Adaptive immune features of natural killer cells” in Nature — cited 1,406 times.
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2008· 3 entries
Published “Up on the tightrope: natural killer cell activation and inhibition” in Nature Immunology — cited 1,400 times.
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Published “Vitamin D Deficiency and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease” in Circulation — cited 1,822 times.
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Published “The Immunological Genome Project: networks of gene expression in immune cells” in Nature Immunology — cited 1,840 times.
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2007· 1 entry
Published a mea culpa sequel entitled "Pay Me for My Content", again in The New York Times
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2006· 2 entries
IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award in 2009
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Began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist
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2005· 2 entries
Foreign Policy named Lanier as one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals
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Published “NK CELL RECOGNITION” in Annual Review of Immunology — cited 2,292 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Published “Revised nomenclature for allergy for global use: Report of the Nomenclature Review Committee of the World Allergy Organization, October 2003” in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology — cited 1,689 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Finalist for the first Edge of Computation Award in 2005
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1999· 3 entries
Lanier authored a New York Times opinion piece entitled "Piracy is Your Friend" in which he argued that the record labels were a much bigger threat to artists than piracy
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Published “Activation of NK Cells and T Cells by NKG2D, a Receptor for Stress-Inducible MICA” in Science — cited 2,365 times.
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Sun Microsystems bought VPL's virtual reality and graphics-related patents
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1998· 2 entries
That the Internet mirrors the contemporary culture accurately,
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Published “HLA-E binds to natural killer cell receptors CD94/NKG2A, B and C” in Nature — cited 1,794 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Was a founding member of the "National Tele-Immersion Initiative", an effort devoted to using computer technology to give people who are separated by great distances the illusion that they are physically together
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1994· 1 entry
Released the contemporary classical music album Instruments of Change on POINT Music/Philips/PolyGram Records
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1988· 1 entry
Kodak employed 140,000 people when it led the digital imaging industry
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-05-03.
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