"'Ultima IV' is the game that all modern (role-playing games) flow from, but it's also kind of the impossible platonic ideal of a (computer role-playing game), " said retro-gamer Ben Lesnick, 31, of Washington.
At the same time, Disney has yet to develop a leading role in computer animation.
Each interviewee, many of whom barely knew how to turn on a computer, had a role to play in shaping this new landscape.
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He established his first studio Adventures Unlimited Software, Inc. in 1983, where he acted as the lead designer and programmer of several fantasy role-playing computer games.
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In both cases clever designs of computer hardware and software played a role.
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Patents played almost no role in protecting the first computer operating systems.
Co-starring Josh Gad ("1600 Penn, " "The Book of Mormon") as business partner Steve Wozniak, the film focuses on Jobs' celebrated role in pioneering the personal computer.
The chief ministers also want to revamp education policy to enourage the rapid expansion of computer skills and allow a much greater role for private colleges.
Senators worried the new position of overseeing the military's cyber defense efforts for the Pentagon could blur the lines between Alexander's current civilian role of leading the National Security Agency (NSA), which also plays a role in protecting the nations computer networks by monitoring domestic electronic communications.
His other TV credits include the role of Gamesmaster in the 1990s computer games show of the same name.
With the advent of computer games, the way people look at role-playing games is different than it was in 1980.
Then, as now, there was talk of a new era, with electricity and the motor car playing the role of the Internet and the computer.
In taking on the role of chairman Mr Rosedale will replace computer industry veteran Mitch Kapor - the co-founder of Lotus.
The documents will be released at the same time as the findings of an internal inquiry into the university's role in the case, led by computer science professor Hal Abelson.
Tsarnaev led authorities to look there, the source said, and others who may have knowledge of the computer's whereabouts or may have played a role in disposing it also provided leads that prompted the search.
Coalition military leaders examine these and other "what-ifs" time and again in "war games" and computer exercises, using "red teams" playing the role of enemy.
Not only is Brittany a role model to other girls considering jobs in computer programming and biomedical research, but she also has produced a lifesaving technology that could help women across the globe.
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In his current role since 2004, and as CEO of Apple Computer Japan before, Harada has proven a master of the fundamental Drucker management skills of marketing and innovation.
On March 14th all charges were dropped against Patricia Dunn, the former chairman of Hewlett-Packard, over her role in the boardroom spying scandal that shook the computer firm last year.
Lewis, a longtime player of videogames and Dungeons and Dragons, the forerunner paper-and-pen role-playing game, graduated with a degree in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993.
It is a hand-held version of the more elaborate role-playing games that keep youngsters glued to TV and computer monitors.
Not surprisingly, the flights leave some areas unmonitored, and so computer models have been used to fill in the blanks and to estimate the role played by these patches.
Gamification is in fact already gaining a foothold in education, and some would argue that it has always played a prominent role in one form or another, even in the pre-computer era.
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But he's learning that he can no longer play the same role that he did in the early days, when he spent most of his time writing computer code.
Hennessy, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science with 23 years at Stanford, has the right background to figure out the university's new role.
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