War Games Panel
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On Friday, May 30th Craig Silverstein hosted a panel and an exclusive screening at Google of the 1983 suspense film, WarGames, in honor of the 25th Anniversary DVD. The panelists included Walter Parkes (Academy Award Nominated Writer, Producer), Lawrence Lasker, (Academy Award Nominated Writer, Producer) and Peter Schwartz (Cofounder and Chairman, Global Business Network). The panelists gave Googlers a behind the scenes peek into the making of this film and its resulting legacy.
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I hate that movie sooo much.
actually, i was watching it yesterday.
Any other computer movies that you guys might recommend?
The older the better :)
silent running
hackers
matrix series
3) However, Walter claimed that most Googlers could be David Lightman. He's dead wrong. There's an element to David Lightman in every Googler, but fundamentally David Lightman's MO is hacking, especially when it comes to AI meets hacking (e.g., malicious intelligent agents, artificial immune systems for network intrusion detection).
1) The space warfare theme that was originally tossed around in Q1 '79 was my idea and he ridiculed it during the panel. In fact, I felt that the idea of breaking into the Blue Cube wasn't such a big deal. Also, space warfare became a hot topic in the late 70's, so it was much more timely then than it is now.
BTW, also see the forthcoming August (2008) issue of Wired. I'm noted by the lead author of a retro feature on WarGames as "the model for David Lightman." Scott (the lead author) is mentioned by both Larry or Walter (or both) during this panel at Google.
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