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John Lansdown

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Robert John Lansdown (2 January 1929 Cardiff, Wales – 17 February 1999) was a British computer graphics pioneer, polymath and Professor Emeritus at Middlesex University Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, which was renamed in his honour in 2000. [1]

26 relations: Alien (film), Association for Computing Machinery, Birkbeck, University of London, Cardiff, Channel 4, Charlie Gere, Computer Arts Society, Douglas Kahn, Elliott Brothers (computer company), Eurographics, Hannah Higgins, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, List of Edinburgh festivals, Martin Lambie-Nairn, Middlesex University, MIT Press, Polymath, Ridley Scott, Royal College of Art, Russell Square, Science and Engineering Research Council, Sydney Opera House, System Simulation, The Guardian, University of Sydney, Wales.

Alien (film)

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto.

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is an international learned society for computing.

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Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London (formally, Birkbeck College; informally, Birkbeck), is a public research university located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Charlie Gere

Charlie Gere is a British academic who is professor of media theory and history at The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, The University of Lancaster and previously, director of research at the Institute for Cultural Research at The University of Lancaster.

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Computer Arts Society

The Computer Arts Society (CAS) was founded in 1968, in order to encourage the creative use of computers in the arts.

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Douglas Kahn

Douglas Kahn (born 1951) is Professor of Media and Innovation at the (NIEA) at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, where he was the Founding Director of Technocultural Studies.

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Elliott Brothers (computer company)

Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd was an early computer company of the 1950s–60s in the United Kingdom.

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Eurographics

Eurographics is a Europe-wide professional computer graphics association.

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Hannah Higgins

Hannah B. Higgins (born 1964) is an American writer and academic living in Chicago, Illinois.

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Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts

The Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts was a research centre at Middlesex University in North London.

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List of Edinburgh festivals

This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Martin Lambie-Nairn

Martin Lambie-Nairn (born 5 August 1945) is an English designer.

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Middlesex University

Middlesex University London is a public university in Hendon, north west London, England.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).

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Polymath

A polymath (πολυμαθής,, "having learned much,"The term was first recorded in written English in the early seventeenth century Latin: uomo universalis, "universal man") is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas—such a person is known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.

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Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer.

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Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, in the United Kingdom.

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Russell Square

Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, built predominantly by James Burton.

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Science and Engineering Research Council

The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) was the UK agency in charge of publicly funded scientific and engineering research activities, including astronomy, biotechnology and biological sciences, space research and particle physics, between 1965 and 1994.

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Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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System Simulation

System Simulation (SSL) is a software engineering company now specialising in text and multimedia information systems, based in Covent Garden, central London, England, and founded in 1970.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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University of Sydney

The University of Sydney (informally, USyd or USYD) is an Australian public research university in Sydney, Australia.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lansdown

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