Jim Clark, who started Silicon Graphics and Healtheon and cofounded Netscape, was an extreme example of this type.
Andreessen Horowitz has named Ken Coleman, former executive at Silicon Graphics, as a special advisor.
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Hartz first broke into Silicon Valley as a product manager at Silicon Graphics (SGI).
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In 1992, it was sold to Silicon Graphics for three hundred and thirty-three million dollars.
Many Silicon Valley companies, including Sun, Silicon Graphics, Bay Networks and Hewlett-Packard, have offices there.
The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).
One of the computers sold also by Silicon Graphics is now operating in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Another lets children draw spots or squiggles on a robotic chameleon using a custom-paint program on Silicon Graphics work-stations.
He had previously founded two billion-dollar companies, the latter of them Silicon Graphics.
High-performance computing company Silicon Graphics this afternoon posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 24.
Additional contributors and sponsors to the lab include Caldera Systems, Dell Computer, Linuxcare, LynuxWorks, Red Hat, SuSE, Silicon Graphics Inc.
He went to Silicon Valley in 1986 and, after stints at Apple and Silicon Graphics, cofounded a digital-image-sharing outfit called Pictra.
' Four of the five supercomputers we are aware of publicly in Russia's nuclear weapons labs came from Silicon Graphics ...
According to Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, a leading supplier of 3-D workstations, prices have fallen by a third every 12 to 18 months.
In other Microsoft news, Rick Belluzzo , former chief executive officer of Silicon Graphics , will be appointed Microsoft president and chief operating officer.
To really see the 660LX in action, download Silicon Graphics' outstanding handwriting recognition software, CalliGrapher, and turn heads by handwriting memos, notes and E-mails.
While GM, Circuit City, Blockbuster, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems have been failing, Apple, Google, Cisco, Netflix, Facebook and Twitter have maintained double-digit growth!
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Lewis has picked a totemic figure, Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon--a trifecta of multibillion-dollar-market-cap creations pulled off only by Clark.
Silicon Graphics, another former highflier, sought bankruptcy protection in May.
Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, has known Coleman for years, since he was hired by Coleman as a summer intern at Silicon Graphics in 1986.
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Earlier at the conference, Silicon Graphics gave the open-source community another nod of corporate approval by tapping C2Net as a partner in its Internet service strategy.
CalliGrapher from the ParaGraph PI unit of Silicon Graphics, our choice for Best of Breed, not only achieved 100% accuracy but it alone recognizes both print and cursive.
Jim Clark, who started Silicon Graphics (nyse: SGI - news - people ) and Healtheon and cofounded Netscape, was an extreme example of this type.
OpenGL ES is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc.
"When I'm out doing these trips I feel I'm doing something useful, " says software engineer Thomas Davis , 52, a cofounder of Silicon Graphics, who retired two years ago.
Coleman, later chief operating officer at Silicon Graphics, is now chairman of Saama Technologies and is on the board of City National Bank, United Online and Accelrys.
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Bill Gates can beat most of us at poker, software, Scrabble and deploying capital into any business, and a Silicon Graphics supercomputer easily outcalculates a Dell laptop for most functions.
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems ( SGIC - news - people ), a leading supplier of 3-D workstations, prices have fallen by a third every 12 to 18 months.
Mike Ramsay and Jim Barton, TiVo's co-founders, were part of the first wave of interactive TV when they worked on a Silicon Graphics -Time Warner trial installation in the early '90s.
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Soon afterward, Hennessy induced a former electrical-engineering faculty colleague, James Clark, who had founded Silicon Graphics (which purchased MIPS), to give a hundred and fifty million dollars to create the James H.
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