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By Odist Harmon. Computers in Entertainment. Lenovo.
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By Odist Harmon Computers in Entertainment
Lenovo • Lenovo is dedicated to building the world's best engineered personal computers. Lenovo's business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets. Formed by Lenovo Group's acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable high-quality, secure, and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. (Lenovo)
Computers and the NBA • The Lenovo Stat will be a plus/minus statistic that will look at the point differential when a player, or combination of players, is in the game to see what effect they have on the team as a whole. The statistic will identify the best individual through five player combinations for each game, and over the course of an entire season. (Lenovo) • As a way to demonstrate the power of teamwork during an NBA game, The Lenovo Stat will showcase the best-engineered combination of teammates on the court for every NBA game and will be available on NBA.com and NBA TV at the end of each game. (Lenovo)
More in the NBA • Lenovo Best-Engineered Personal Computers to Enhance NBA Games Lenovo will deploy ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and Lenovo 3000 notebook and desktop PCs courtside in all 30 NBA arenas to record data and statistical information for more than 1,300 NBA games throughout the regular season and playoffs. (Lenovo) • Lenovo personal computers will be featured courtside at the Official Scorer's Table and will record more than 250,000 points, 130,000 rebounds and more than 50,000 assists each season. NBA statisticians will benefit from Lenovo touch screen lap-tops to record more than 650,000 statistical events per season in real time to NBA.com, the league's 30 team Web sites, NBA TV and thousands of media around the world. NBA referees will also utilize Lenovo personal computers to review video of their calls at halftime, post-game and while traveling between games. (Lenovo)
More Entertainment • The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly referred to as HP, is an American information technology corporation, specializing in personal computers, notebook computers, servers, network management software, printers, digital cameras, and calculators, among other technology related products.
http://www.hp.com/personalagain/us/en/making_hands.html Making of Hands
Computers and Movies • We can all recall movies that have computers in them as main characters. Here are some movies that show computers more or less as they really existed, or as society, or filmmakers, thought they existed.
Computers in Movies • Terminator • An action thriller that puts Robots and computers at the front of society • Matrix Man Vs. Machine • Jurassic Park Puts man against dinosours.
Bibliography • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MoviesWithComputers • http://www.lenovo.com/news/us/en/2006/10/nba.html\ • http://www.wikipedi.com