The Brain Virus

The common story is that two brothers from Pakistan analyzed the boot sector of a floppy disk and developed a method of infecting it with a virus dubbed “Brain” (the origin is generally accepted but not absolutely). Because it spread widely on the popular MS-DOS PC system this is typically…

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The First Worm (Morris Worm)

The first computer worm, dubbed the “Morris worm” after it’s creator Robert Morris Jr., appeared in the winter of 1988. It was not written to cause damage, but to spread. Morris originally had benign reasons for creating it, claiming it was to gauge the size of the internet. A Cornell…

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Renderman

From Pixar Studios‘, What Is Renderman? Leading digital effects houses and computer graphics specialists use Pixar’s Renderman® because it is the highest quality renderer available anywhere and has been production tested through successful use in feature films for over ten years. Pixar’s Renderman is stable, fast, and efficient for handling…

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Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios combines creative and technical artistry to create original stories in the medium of computer animation. In partnership with Disney, Pixar has created four of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Academy Award®-winning Toy Story (1995), A Bug’s Life (1998), Golden Globe-winner Toy Story…

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