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From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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Silicon Graphics: Funding the 3D Workstation Stack Behind Digital Effects

Early venture funding let Silicon Graphics commercialize the Geometry Engine and build an integrated 3D workstation stack that transformed engineering visualization and digital effects.

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Silicon Graphics and the Workstation Culture That Industrialized Real-Time 3D

Silicon Graphics turned Stanford's Geometry Engine research into a workstation company whose specialized graphics pipelines, programming libraries and professional systems made interactive 3D an industrial tool.

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