Selected Publications:
Forthcoming:
Chapter about pianos for Sherry Turkle’s new anthology on childhood experiences with technology.
Already out:
Lanier, Jaron, Ramachandran VS, and
MIller, Paul (DJ Spooky), Spectrum: Truth, Technology, and the
Visual/Virtual World, Cleveland Public Library Press, 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “Raft to the
Future: Does time come together like an island of boats floating on the
open seas?” Discover Magazine, Vol. 27 No. 10, October 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “The Murder of Mystery: How Silicon Valley
joined the superstitious fringe as the enemy of open inquiry.”
Discover Magazine, Vol. 27 No. 09, September 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “Sing a Song of Evolution: Is language
descended from musical mating calls?” Discover Magazine, Vol. 27
No. 08, August 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “Heads-Up: Why your next telephone may come
mounted on a neck.” Discover Magazine, Vol. 27 No. 07, July 2006
Lanier, Jaron “Can Technology Make Us Happy?” Veja, July 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “The Soul of The Machine: Can a random
collection of data be conscious?” Discover Magazine, Vol. 27 No.
06, June 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “Two Philosophies of Mathematical Weirdness,” American Scientist, May-June issue, 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism” Edge.org, May 30, 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “I Smell, Therefore I Think: Did odors give rise
to the first words?” Discover Magazine,Vol. 27 No. 05, May 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “Why Not Morph? What cephalopods can
teach us about language.” Discover Magazine,Vol. 27 No. 04, April
2006
Lanier, Jaron, “The Gory Antigora: Illusions of Capitalism and Computers,” CATO Unbound, January 9, 2006
Lanier, Jaron, “Creativity Can be Fostered,” Business Times, November 10, 2005
Lanier, Jaron, “Post-symbolic Communication”, chapter in
What We Believe But Cannot Prove, Edited by John Brockman, Free Press,
November 2005
Lanier, Jaron, “The Whole Megillah,” American Scientist, September-October issue, 2005
Lanier, Jaron, “Early Computing's Long, Strange Trip,” American Scientist, July-August issue, 2005
Eric K. Clemons, Steve Barnett and Jaron Lanier, “Fortune Favors
the Forward-Thinking” Financial Times, September 23, 2005
Lanier, Jaron. "A Childhood Between Realities,” chapter in
Curious Minds: How A Child Becomes A Scientist, John Brockman (Editor,)
Pantheon, August, 2004
Lanier, Jaron. “A Framework For Understanding How Materials
Science And Moore's Law Are Changing The Landscape Of Virtual Reality,
Telepresence, And Tele-Immersion Research,” Proceedings Of The
2004 ACM SIGMM Workshop On Effective Telepresence
Lanier, Jaron, "The Magic Window," NSF Lake Tahoe Workshop On
Collaborative Virtual Reality And Visualization (CVRV 2003)."
Lanier, Jaron, “Why Gordian Software Has Convinced Me To Believe
In The Reality Of Cats And Apples” edge.org November 1, 2003
Lanier, Jaron. "The One Half Manifesto,” chapter in The New
Humanists: Science At The Edge, John Brockman (Editor,) Barnes
& Noble Books, September, 2003
Rosen J, Grigg E, Lanier J, Mcgrath S, Lillibridge S, Sargent D, Koop
Ce. “The Future Of Command And Control For Disaster Response;
Utilizing Information And Virtual Reality Technology, The Cybercare
System Can Link Resources Throughout The Country For Distributed Yet
Coordinated Command And Control.” IEEE Eng Med Biol Mag.
2002 Sep-Oct;21(5):56-68.
Lanier, Jaron. "The Complexity Ceiling,” chapter in The Next
Fifty Years : Science In The First Half Of The Twenty-First Century,
John Brockman (Editor,) Vintage, May, 2002
Towles, H., Wei-Chao Chen, Ruigang Yang, Sang-Uok Kum, Henry Fuchs,
Nikhil Kelshikar, Jane Mulligan, Kostas Daniilidis, Loring Holden, Bob
Zeleznik, Amela Sadagic and Jaron Lanier. “3D Tele-Collaboration
Over Internet2.” International Workshop On Immersive Telepresence
(ITP2002)
Lanier, Jaron. "Virtually There," Scientific American, April 2001, pp. 66-75.
Lanier, Jaron. "A Love Song For Napster,” Discover, February 2001
Amela Sadagic, Herman Towles, Jaron Lanier, Henry Fuchs, Andries Van
Dam, Kostas Daniilidis, Jane Mulligan, Loring Holden And Bob Zeleznik.
"National Tele-Immersion Initiative: Towards Compelling Tele-Immersive
Collaborative Environments," Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual
Reality (MMVR), January 2001.
Lanier, Jaron “One Half of a Manifesto” Edge.org, November 11, 2000
Lanier, Jaron. "The Ego,” chapter in The Greatest Inventions Of
The Past 2,000 Years, John Brockman, Simon & Schuster, January, 2000
Lanier, Jaron. "Ruby Crystal Squid Dancing On The Rings Of Saturn,"
chapter in The New Earth Reader; The Best Of Terra Nova, David
Rothenberg And Marta Ulvaeus, Editors, The Mit Press, December, 1999
Lanier, Jaron. "And Now A Brief Word From Now; Logical Dependencies
Between Vernacular Concepts Of Free Will, Time And
Consciousness,” Journal Of Consciousness Studies, 1999, Vol. 6,
No. 8-9, pp. 261-68(-192)
Lanier, Jaron. "What Information Is Given By A Veil?” Journal Of Consciousness Studies, 1999, Vol. 6, No.6/7
Lanier, Jaron. "Piracy Is Your Friend,” The New York Times, May 9, 1999
Lanier, Jaron. "The Eternal Now,” Forbes ASAP, February 22, 1999
Lanier, Jaron. "The Care And Feeding Of Digital Behemoths,” The New York Times, October 11, 1997, Saturday
Lanier, Jaron. "Beyond Goggles And Gloves,” Byte, Volume 22 , Issue 9, August 1997
Dawkins, Richard and Lanier, Jaron. "Evolution: The Dissent Of Darwin; A debate,” Psychology Today, Jan-Feb, 1997
Lanier, Jaron. "Death: The Skeleton Key Of Consciousness
Studies?,” Journal Of Consciousness Studies, 4, No.2, 1997, pp.
181-5
Lanier, Jaron. "Many Unhappy Returns At I.R.S.,” The New York Times, February 2, 1997
Lanier, Jaron. "The Frontier Between Us," Communications Of The ACM,
Volume 40 , Issue 2 (February 1997) Pages: 55 - 56
Lanier, Jaron. "Unmuzzling The Internet,” The New York Times, January 2, 1996
Lanier, Jaron. "My Problems With Agents,” Wired, 1996.
Lanier, Jaron. “Agents Of Alienation”, ACM
Interactions, Volume 2 Issue 3, July 1995 (Entire issue
devoted to articles by or about Lanier.)
Lanier, Jaron. “You Can't Argue With A Zombie,”
Journal Of Consciousness Studies, 1995, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 333-344(12)
Lasko-Harvill, A., Blanchard, C., Lanier, J., And Mcgrew, D.
“A Fully Immersive Cholecystectomy Simulation,” Proceedings
Of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality III (MMVR,) 1995
Lanier, Jaron. “Music From Inside Virtual Reality: The Sound Of One Hand,” Whole Earth Review, June, 1993
Lanier, Jaron. “Virtual Reality: The Promise Of The
Future," Interactive Learning International, 8(4): 275-9,
October-December 1992
Jaron, Lanier. "The Future Of Virtual Reality," Journal Of Communication, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 150-172 Fall, 1992
Jaron Lanier, Chuck Blanchard, Scott Burgess, Young Harvill, Ann Lasko,
Mark Oberman, Michael Teitel, "Reality Built For Two: A Virtual Reality
Tool," Computer Graphics, March 1990, Vol. 24, No. 2; pp. 35-36
Lanier, Jaron. "Using Virtual Reality As A Tool To Study The
Relationship Between Human Beings And Physical Reality", In Human
Machine Interfaces For Teleoperators And Virtual Environments, Nasa
Conference Publication 10071, 1990
Lanier, Jaron. “Beyond The Desktop Metaphor,” SIGCHI Panel Procedings, 1990
Lanier, J., Minsky, M., Fisher, S. And Druin, A. “Virtual
Environments And Interactivity: Windows To The Future,” 1989 ACM
Siggraph Panel Proceedings
Jaron Lanier, Ann Lasko-Harvill, Et Al, "From Dataglove To
Datasuit" Digest Of Papers, Compcon 1988, 33rd IEEE Computer
Society International; 2/29-3/4/88; pp. 536-538
Lanier, Jaron. "The DataGlove,” Scientific American, cover and accompanying description, September 1987
Thomas G. Zimmerman, Jaron Lanier, Chuck Blanchard, Steve Bryson, Young
Harvill, "A Hand Gesture Interface Device" , ACM SIGCHI Bulletin,
189-192, May 1986
Lanier, Jaron. "Visual Programming Languages,” Scientific American, cover and accompanying description, May 1984
Lanier, Jaron “Musical score interpolating the Boehm clarinet key
system with the New York City Subway Map” cover of EAR Magazine,
Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1979
Patents (Most have collaborators- look them up!)
US numbers Issue date (Foreign patents issued for each of these as well)
4,988,981 1/29/91 Computer Data Entry & Manipulation Apparatus & Method
5,521,373 5/28/96 Position Tracking System
5,546,530 8/13/96 Method And Apparatus For Rendering Graphic Images
5,559,995 9/24/96 Method And Apparatus For Creating A Wireframe and Polygon Virtual World
5,587,936 12/14/96 Method & Apparatus For Creating Sounds In A Virtual World
5,588,104 12/24/96 Method And
Apparatus For Creating Virtual Worlds Using a Data Flow Network
5,588,139 12/24/96 Method And
System For Generating Objects For a Multiperson Virtual World Using
Data
Flow Networks
5,850,201 12/15/98 Low Cost Virtual Reality System
5,986,643 11/16/99 Tactile Feedback Mechanism For a Data Processing System
6,124,838 9/26/00 Hood-Shaped Support Frame For a Low Cost Virtual Reality System
6,222,523 4/24/01 Tactile Feedback Mechanism For a Data Processing System
6,400,374 6/4/02 Video Superposition System and Method
A few selected interviews (There are hundreds of published interviews to choose from)
“Voodoo Electronics,” Jaron Lanier Interviewed by Arnie Cooper, The Sun Magazine, May 2005 issue 353
“Coding from Scratch: A Conversation with Virtual Reality Pioneer
Jaron Lanier,” by Janice J. Heiss, JavaOne Magazine, January 23,
2003
“In Focus; Jaron Lanier,” Scientific American, September 15, 1996
Frenkel Karen A., “A Conversation With Jaron Lanier,” July
1995 ACM Interactions, Volume 2 Issue 3 (This issue of “ACM
Interactions” was entirely devoted to various articles by and
about Jaron Lanier.)
Interview as chapter in “Mavericks Of The Mind: Conversations For
The New Millennium,” By David Jay Brown, Crossing Press, March,
1993
Porter, S. 1992. “Interview: Jaron Lanier,” Computer
Graphics World, Vol. 14, No. 4, Pp. 61-70
Kelly, K. “Virtual Reality: An Interview With Jaron
Lanier,” Whole Earth Review, Fall 1989, Pp. 108-119. (This was an
influential early statement about the utopian approach to VR.)
Interview as chapter in “Programmers at work: Interviews,” by Susan M. Lammers, Harper and Row, 1986
A few of the more unusual or interesting articles about Jaron (There are thousands to choose from.)
The Guardian (London) “Profile: Jaron Lanier, The Virtual Visionary”
Saturday December 29, 2001
“Time of Growing Pains for Information Age” by Dennis Overbye, The New York Times, August 7, 2001
Nature Biotechnology, “A Y3K Bug” DOI:10.1038/71857
January 2000 Volume 18 Number 1 P 1
“Designs For The Next Millennium; Jaron Lanier”
by Herbert Muschamp, The New York Times, December 5, 1999
Cover story on premiere issue of Red Herring, May 1993
Wired Profile “Jaron” Issue 1.02 | May/June, 1993
Review of Jaron Lanier’s Moondust, by Paul Demarinis, Computer Music Journal Volume 08, No. 2 (Summer 1984), p. 61
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