- Interval Research Corporation
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company_name = Interval Research Corporation
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company_type = Researchthink tank
fate = closed in 2000
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foundation = 1992
defunct = 2000
location = Palo Alto
industry = Research and Development
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subsid =Interval Research Corporation was founded in 1992 by
Paul Allen andDavid Liddle , computer industry veterans. It was a Palo Alto laboratory andtechnology incubator focusing onbroadband applications and services [http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/people/board/liddle.shtml] .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." [http://web.archive.org/web/19971012120741/www.interval.com/about/] . 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. As of June 2008, the interval.com domain registration was maintained byDigeo , another Paul Allen company.Former employees
During its brief existence, Interval employed many well-known computer technology pioneers, including:
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Lawrence Comras , green e-commerce entrepreneur and eco-expert
*Franklin C. Crow , inventor of important anti-aliasing techniques
*Marc Davis (academic) , founder of Yahoo! Research Berkeley
*Glenn Edens , founder of Grid Systems, which made the first laptop computer
*Paul Freiberger , Silicon Valley journalist
*Don Hopkins , new-media artist,The Sims developer andpie menu interface designer
*Brenda Laurel , author, entrepreneur, virtual-reality artist
*Golan Levin , new-media artist
*David Liddle , venture capitalist
*Michael Naimark , new-media artist
*Dean Radin , parapsychologist
*David P. Reed , inventor of TCP/IP
*Robert Shaw (physicist) , physicist and chaos theory pioneer
* [http://rgshoup.com Richard Shoup] , creator ofSuperPaint , the first paint program
*Scott Snibbe , new-media artist
*Bill Verplank , interface designer of theXerox Star , the firstWIMP (computing) GUIExternal links
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.12/interval.html Think Tanked] Wired Magazine, December 1999
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