Carnegie Mellon University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuwealthy might be the creators of Disney’s next animated character. The Walt Disney Company will establish collaborative labs with the two universities, the corporation announced yesterday at a computer graphics conference in Los Angeles.
The collaborative labs, in Pittsburgh and Zurich, will do research on computer animation, computational cinematography, autonomous interactive characters, robotics, data mining, and user interfaces, among other topics, according to a news release. Disney will provide funds for five years to pay the directors of the two labs, and money for seven years for eight principal investigators.
One of the Carnegie Mellon lab’s first projects will be finding ways for people to interact with virtual or robotic characters. The Swiss researchers will look at issues such as computer animation, image synthesis, and artificial intelligence. Disney may use the results fo...
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by Fabian Toulouse
One of the most lucrative companies over the last century has been Disney. Since the early 1900s they have been captivating audiences and reminding everyone that it’s nice to dream. The success of the movie studios is only rivaled by that of its theme parks. All in all, Disney is a global wonder, with amusement parks all over the world and annual revenue of over $35 billion.
The triumph of Disney can be traced back to a single man - Walter Elias Disney. From his e... more
by Fabian Toulouse
One of the most lucrative companies over the last century has been Disney. Since the early 1900s they have been captivating audiences and reminding everyone that it’s nice to dream. The success of the movie studios is only rivaled by that of its theme parks. All in all, Disney is a global wonder, with amusement parks all over the world and annual revenue of over $35 billion.
The success of Disney can be traced back to a single man - Walter Elias Disney. From his ear... more
by Fabian Toulouse
One of the most profitable companies over the last century has been Disney. Since the early 1900s they have been entrancing audiences and reminding everyone that it’s OK to dream. The success of the movie studios is only rivaled by that of its theme parks. All in all, Disney is a global marvel, with amusement parks all over the world and annual revenue of over $35 billion.
The accomplishments of Disney can be traced back to a single man - Walter Elias Disney. From h... more
Walt Disney Co executives have been meeting this week to prepare belt-tightening measures that could include job cuts, the Los Angeles Times said, citing people familiar with the discussions. The sources told the paper that staff reductions were being contemplated companywide. Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks, asked senior staff to recommend possible cuts in case the economy deteriorates further, according to the paper.
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Disney considering layoffs
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Disney executives have been holding meetings in anticipation of a possible economic recession. While not confirmed by Disney, one of the measures being discussed is job cuts in all divisions of the company.
The President of ABC News, David Westin, issued a staff memo instructing them "to make sure we have all the resources we need to cover the news" while implementing cost cutting measures. This includes flying "one grade below what they&rsq... more
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Walt Disney was 53-years-old when he dedicated Disneyland in July 1955.
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1858 - :happybday Theodore Roosevelt , the twenty-sixth United States President, is born in New York City. Visit him and all the U.S. Chief Executives at Disney World’s Hall of Presidents.
1911 - :happybday Author and journalist Daniel Pratt Mannix IV is born in Pennsylvania. Mannix’... more
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The demon in Fantasia’s "Night on Bald Mountain" is named Chernobog, after the god of evil in Slavonic mythology.
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1921 - :happybday Animator Retta Davidson - one of the few women animators who worked for Walt Disney Studios during the Golden Age of American animation - is born in Arcadia, California. After graduating from high school in 1939, she will join Disney as a... more
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OCT. 29 | DVD and new media producer Giant Interactive is moving into Blu-ray Disc production, authoring A&E Video’s first two Blu-ray releases: Universe: The Complete Season 1 and Paul McCartney: The Space Within Us, both due Nov. 18.
Giant recently hired executive producer Jeffrey Eagle and director of digital operations Jay Chumley to lead th... more
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Awesome Swag: PotCO Skull on WarCry
Every so often, we get a piece of swag from developers that really goes above and beyond the call of duty. In honor of Pirates of the Caribbean Online ’s one-year anniversary this Friday (All Hallows’ Eve), developers Disney Interactive sent WarCry a tattooed tribal skull, and it was just so awesome that we just had to share it with you guys. Pictures beneath the cut!
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Buzz Lightyear 1st Grade 450 MB | PC | EN | Disney Interactive | ISBN: 1573503282 | DAA | RAR | Pass: jamespoetrodriguez Descripción Aprende cosas de primer grado con el famoso Buzz de ToyStory de Disney. Buzz Lightyear y sus amigos en la habitación de Andy como un aula interactiva para el Primer Grado. Los juegos de Disney de aprendizaje activo y promoción de las actividades de pensamiento creativo y habilidades para resolver problemas, a través de más de 40 habilidades de desarrollo. D... more
A Connecticut man was sentenced to four to 10 years in prison Friday for trying to burn down the home of a professor he blamed for getting him ejected from Loyola College in Maryland, The York Dispatch reported.
Garrett M. Alder pleaded guilty but mentally ill Friday in the York County, Pa., Court of Common Pleas to one count of arson and three counts of reckless endangerment. He apologized to the professor, Bradley Erford, for setting four small fires at his home in Shrewsbury, Pa.,... more
Monroe Community College discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation when it denied health benefits to a lesbian employee’s partner, a New York appellate court ruled on Friday.
The court held that the college violated New York’s “marriage recognition law” by not recognizing the validity of the couple’s 2004 marriage in Canada, The New York Times reported. Just as New York employers honor heterosexual marriages that take place in other jurisdictions the... more
Washington — President Bush will ask Congress next week for a $2.6-billion increase in 2009 for the Pell Grant program for college students from low-income families, the Associated Press reported today.
The AP said it had obtained a copy of a White House budget proposal sent to Congress, in which the administration seeks a total of nearly $60-billion for education programs at all levels, about the same as this year, without any increase to keep pace with inflation.
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Public higher-education institutions in Zimbabwe have been ordererd to remain closed until after parliamentary and presidential elections in late March, according to a former national student leader and a university official.
President Robert Mugabe, who has ordered elections to be held March 29, is worried that students might hold demonstrations if the results were perceived to be rigged in his favor, said Promise Mkwananzi, a former president of the Zimbabwe National Students Union.
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