User contributions for Alvyray
A user with 78 edits. Account created on 24 April 2011.
24 January 2024
- 17:0017:00, 24 January 2024 diff hist −15 Pixar Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith (me) are the cofounders of Pixar. Steve Jobs was not. He was our principal funder but not a cofounder. I have proved this in one of the three first footnotes. You can also see further details in my book A Biography of the Pixel Tag: Manual revert
18 January 2024
- 15:2215:22, 18 January 2024 diff hist −95 Pixar As the cofounder, with Ed Catmull, of Pixar, I again have edited out Steve Jobs as cofounder and also George Lucas. They were both important funders of the group but not founders of the company.
26 October 2020
- 15:4315:43, 26 October 2020 diff hist −18 Pixar Removed Steve Jobs as cofounder. This has sneaked in again. It's not true. See footnote [3]. Ed Catmull and I were the cofounders.
24 May 2017
- 07:2607:26, 24 May 2017 diff hist −17 Pixar Removed Steve Jobs as cofounder again. He wasn't. See proof, footnotes 2 and 3. Issue discussed at length previously.
26 June 2016
- 18:3518:35, 26 June 2016 diff hist +917 Talk:Pixar →Cofounders of Pixar are Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith
21 May 2016
- 08:4608:46, 21 May 2016 diff hist +83 User:Alvyray added UserBoxCOI current
10 May 2016
- 08:0208:02, 10 May 2016 diff hist +303 Talk:Computer Animation Production System →Conflict of Interest?
8 May 2016
- 17:3517:35, 8 May 2016 diff hist +519 User talk:Alvyray →More on COI matters
- 06:5506:55, 8 May 2016 diff hist +258 User talk:Alvyray →More on COI matters
- 06:5306:53, 8 May 2016 diff hist +222 User talk:Alvyray →More on COI matters
- 06:4506:45, 8 May 2016 diff hist +201 N User:Alvyray introduction of myself
6 May 2016
- 21:1921:19, 6 May 2016 diff hist +4,571 Talk:Pixar →Cofounders of Pixar are Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith: new section
- 18:4918:49, 6 May 2016 diff hist −16 Pixar Understand the COI issue. But this is a DOCUMENTED change. See footnote 2 please for document-based proof. What else are you going to use?
- 17:5317:53, 6 May 2016 diff hist −16 Pixar Deleted Steve Jobs as cofounder AGAIN. Read the document at footnote 2! Jobs invented his cofounder status when Pixar was 8 yrs old. It's not true. He was our VC.
23 March 2016
- 01:3801:38, 23 March 2016 diff hist 0 m The Adventures of André & Wally B. Changed Alvy Ray Smith's last name to Smith, from Ray Smith [2 occurrences]
- 01:0601:06, 23 March 2016 diff hist +1,693 Cellular automaton Added about a decade's worth of often overlooked early CA contributions, with supporting references.
11 March 2016
- 23:2523:25, 11 March 2016 diff hist +47 Swissvale, Pennsylvania →Notable people: added Zworykin
- 23:2423:24, 11 March 2016 diff hist +343 Swissvale, Pennsylvania →History: Added Zworykin as notable person who lived in Swissvale
24 February 2016
- 19:5519:55, 24 February 2016 diff hist −78 Pixar I removed the "stop motion" nonsense. Pixar has never done stop motion and it did not come from that background.
11 February 2016
- 03:3203:32, 11 February 2016 diff hist −28 Computer Animation Production System Deleted the "needs verification" notice since many footnotes have been added.
- 03:2703:27, 11 February 2016 diff hist +515 Computer Animation Production System Reshuffled the sentences in the history to place Lambert in proper order. Added a Lambert letter footnote. Added Disney's Peter Schneider and Roy E. Disney. Qualified "first" (Hanna-Barbera was first).
10 February 2016
- 20:5020:50, 10 February 2016 diff hist −160 Computer Animation Production System Added formal documentation of the CAPS proposal and business deal. Also added NYIT reference for earliest history, and a footnote for Cornell.
6 January 2016
- 18:1218:12, 6 January 2016 diff hist +491 Computer Animation Production System Added three footnotes
- 17:5417:54, 6 January 2016 diff hist −8 Computer Animation Production System →Significance: Fixed the Lem Davis pointer
- 17:5117:51, 6 January 2016 diff hist +1,878 Computer Animation Production System →Evolution of the system: Added the CAPS history, emphasizing the fundamental role the system had in the Disney/Pixar relationship.
- 16:4916:49, 6 January 2016 diff hist −9 Pixar 6 came from NYIT, not 20: Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, David DiFrancesco, Malcolm Blanchard, Ralph Guggenheim, and Tom Duff
- 16:2616:26, 6 January 2016 diff hist +4 m Pixar added url
23 December 2015
- 04:4404:44, 23 December 2015 diff hist +154 Pixar Surely it's a foul to remove documentary evidence from this site. I've put the documentary proof of Pixar cofounders back. Jobs claims he's cofounder first in 1994 when Pixar is 8 yrs old!
- 04:1804:18, 23 December 2015 diff hist +313 Pixar If you're going to summarize, please do it correctly. George Lucas was never a cofounder. He was a seller. Steve Jobs was never a cofounder. He was our VC, or "Investor" in the founding documents. John Lasseter was one of 38 founding employees.
11 December 2015
- 02:3002:30, 11 December 2015 diff hist −1,297 Pixar Four footnotes re Jobs being cofounder and CEO, after the initial misstatements of the IPO prospectus in 1994, removed. Please don't add post-IPO references. They just ape the 1994 mistakes.
15 August 2015
- 23:4023:40, 15 August 2015 diff hist +10 m Pixar Pixar Business Plan retitled to Six Pixar Business Plans, in a footnote, to more accurately reflect the contents of the .pdf file
- 13:3713:37, 15 August 2015 diff hist +250 Pixar Biz plans '85, no Jobs; founding docs '86, Jobs "investor", VCs aren't co-founders; biz plans '87, Jobs COB, Ed CEO, Ed&Alvy (only) co-founders; biz plans 88-89, Ed COB, Ed&Alvy (only) co-founders; IPO, '95, first (false) use of Jobs as founder
14 August 2015
- 01:3001:30, 14 August 2015 diff hist +318 Pixar Added IPO prospectus p. documenting first use of Jobs as cofounder of Pixar in 1995, and CEO since founding. Anything after this date simply repeats those errors. Trust only documents before this date and NOT JOURNALISTS who seldom check original souces.
- 00:2200:22, 14 August 2015 diff hist −1,298 Pixar Undid revision 675967568 by 95.26.223.97 (talk) Jobs Pixar's CEO since Feb 1986 is in IPO prospectus - I'm a historian - Jobs was important to Pixar but misclaims aren't
13 August 2015
- 01:5401:54, 13 August 2015 diff hist −1 m Steve Jobs deleted extra > character
- 01:5101:51, 13 August 2015 diff hist +469 Steve Jobs Changed purchase of to funding of Pixar (2 places). He didn't purchase it, a common mistake. See Pixar founding documents.
10 August 2015
- 20:3120:31, 10 August 2015 diff hist −7 m Pixar fixed url bug
- 20:2920:29, 10 August 2015 diff hist +420 Pixar Added footnote pointing to actual early documents of Pixar, predating 1995, showing Ed and Alvy as cofounders, and not Jobs, who was listed only as cofounder of Apple
- 20:1720:17, 10 August 2015 diff hist −1,482 Pixar i deleted all the footnotes that reference late documents rather than early documents. The first time Jobs claimed cofounder of Pixar was the 1995 IPO prospectus, where he also claimed he had been CEO of Pixar since its founding. Both wrong.
1 August 2015
- 00:3500:35, 1 August 2015 diff hist +442 Pixar Added footnote to cofounders. Do not confuse the leaders of the public company (Ed's book) with the founding of Pixar itself. I was there at the beginning and ran half of Pixar for five years, and was on the board.
29 July 2015
- 03:3203:32, 29 July 2015 diff hist −319 Pixar I deleted Ed Catmull's book as a valid reference. It simply repeats the company myth about Jobs and Lasseter as cofounders. The only valid source are the founding documents.
14 January 2015
- 20:5720:57, 14 January 2015 diff hist +241 m Alison Gopnik Changed Matt Ridley to Robert Sapolsky; added fellowship in Cognitive Science Society; inserted inclusive first marriage dates; changed number of siblings from 5 to 6
12 November 2014
- 04:2704:27, 12 November 2014 diff hist −33 Pixar Changed cofounder list again: Steve Jobs never even claimed to be cofounder for the first 9 years; John Lasseter was a founding employee (see list) but not one of the two cofounders
20 September 2014
- 09:1409:14, 20 September 2014 diff hist −14 m Pixar corrected (again) the list of cofounders
1 December 2013
- 17:5617:56, 1 December 2013 diff hist −109 Alvy Ray Smith changed photo description
- 17:3917:39, 1 December 2013 diff hist +176 Alvy Ray Smith Undid revision 584075825 by Carniolus (talk) then uploaded new photo to Commons and linked to it as instructed
- 04:2204:22, 1 December 2013 diff hist +269 Alvy Ray Smith new photo, new award
- 00:5400:54, 1 December 2013 diff hist −18 m Alvy Ray Smith Deleted ugly photograph of myself
5 May 2013
- 06:1106:11, 5 May 2013 diff hist −8 m Alvy Ray Smith Undid revision 553589102 by Alvyray (talk)
- 05:4805:48, 5 May 2013 diff hist +7 m Alvy Ray Smith Added link to Richard Shoup's wikipedia page
