Quick Facts About Jaron Lanier
- Born
- May 3, 1960
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Computer Scientist
- Notable works
- Who Owns the Future?
- Known for
- You Are Not a Gadget, Who Owns the Future?
About Jaron Lanier
He is also known as a futurist. After leaving Atari in 1985, he and Thomas G. Zimmerman created VPL Research, which sold early VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s he worked on Internet2 projects, and in the 2000s he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and other universities. He joined Microsoft in 2006 and has been an interdisciplinary scientist at Microsoft Research since 2009.
