Lightman discovers that Stephen Falken is an early artificial intelligence researcher, and guesses correctly that his dead son's name " Joshua " is the backdoor password.

Lightman escapes NORAD by joining a tourist group and, with Mack's help, travels to the Oregon island where the widowed Falken ( John Wood ) now lives under a new identity.

Lightman and Mack find that Falken has become despondent and believes the world is on an inevitable path to nuclear holocaust.

Instead, Falken and Lightman direct the computer to play tic-tac-toe against itself.

The teenagers convince Falken that he should return to NORAD to stop Joshua.

These included Galacticomm's MajorBBS ( later WorldGroup ), eSoft TBBS, and Falken.

Two of his hacker friends explain the concept of a backdoor password and suggest tracking down the Falken referenced in " Falken's Maze ", the first game listed.

* John Wood as Dr. Stephen Falken

Falken was inspired by Stephen Hawking with the appearance of John Lennon, who was interested in the role.

According to biographer Robert Wright, the character Stephen Falken in the film WarGames was modeled after Fredkin.

Pat Falken Smith replaced Marland as head writer of General Hospital in 1979 since he wanted to go slower with Luke and Laura's story than Monty had.

These elements in Marland's work were often taken to further extremes by Pat Falken Smith, who succeeded Marland as head writer on both General Hospital and Guiding Light.

A year after the soap ’ s premiere, they were succeeded by Pat Falken Smith.

Both Margaret DePriest and Pat Falken Smith were members of GH ’ s writing staff, as well as those who helmed it, in various periods during its glory years of the late 1970s and 1980s.

The connection of Where the Heart Is to Ryan's Hope continues with the fact that Pat Falken Smith, in between her stints at General Hospital, served as RHs head writer from 1983 to 1985.

Side ranges are the Erlspitz Group, Soiern Group and Vorkarwendel, Falken Group, Gamsjoch Group and Sonnjoch Group.

A standoff and battle of wills begins between Gunn and Major von Falken ( John Wengraf ), the German commander.

For 2008, Kia offered the LX trim level for the Rio5 ( similar to the Rio LX sedan ) and a limited production of Rio5 SX Tuner models, featuring Falken FK452 tires, Tanabe strut tower brace and Eibach lowering springs.

McConville was a last minute entrant for Team BOC at the Falken Tasmania Challenge of the 2011 V8 Supercars Championship.

Originally created by Herb Rose, Falken BBS was one of the few BBS products which allowed up to 128 users to dial in to a single system ( running DOS ) using multiport hardware, requiring no external multitasker.

Ironically, in 2001, Falken was again sold to Michael Polzin of WilderLand Software, one of the companies which actively supported the competitive Major BBS product as an independent software vendor.

Since the 1999 24 Hours Nürburgring, he races the Nissan Skyline GT-R entry of Japanese team Falken every year as their lead driver.

His first solo victory for the season came during the Falken Tasmania Challenge at Symmons Plains.

In 1918 Fredriksskans was opened and at the same time the where a major conference in Kalmar about the high number of clubs in the town, this led to the merging of IF Gothia and Kamraterna to Kalmar Idrotts Sällskap and Kalmar IK merged with Falken to form Kalmar AIK.

The film follows David Lightman ( Broderick ), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR, a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war.

An acoustic coupler is prominently shown early in the 1983 film " WarGames ", when character David Lightman ( depicted by actor Matthew Broderick ) places a telephone handset into the cradle of a film prop acoustic modem to accentuate the act of using telephone lines for interconnection to the developing computer networks of the period, in this case, a military command computer.

In 1981, Richard Pryor came to town to film parts of the movie Bustin ' Loose and Snohomish received additional attention from Hollywood in the 1983 movie WarGames as the name of the high school from which the character David Lightman, played by Matthew Broderick, hacks into a military computer system.

* In the television series Lie to Me, Cal works on a case of a woman who claims to have had a vision of murder only for it be discovered she has multiple personalities and the Lightman group must work out if the personality who witnessed the crime is a witness or the murderer.

Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game.

David Lightman ( Matthew Broderick ) is a bright but unmotivated Seattle high school student and hacker.

Later, while dialing every number in Sunnyvale, California to find a set of forthcoming computer games, a computer that does not identify itself intrigues Lightman.

Lightman does not know that the Sunnyvale phone number connects to WOPR, or " Joshua ", at Cheyenne Mountain.

Lightman learns the true nature of his actions from a news broadcast, and the FBI arrests him and takes him to NORAD.

David Lightman was modeled on David Scott Lewis, a hacking enthusiast Parkes and Lasker met.

A scene from the 1983 film WarGames was filmed near Darrington, and during one scene, when David Lightman ( Matthew Broderick ) is in a phone booth and says he is in Colorado, the mountain in the background is Whitehorse Mountain.

Alan Paige Lightman ( born November 28, 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee ) is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur.

Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee.

His father was Richard Lightman, a movie theater owner, and his mother, Jeanne Garretson, a dancing teacher and volunteer Braille typist.

Lightman received his AB degree in physics from Princeton University in 1970, magna cum laude, where he was Phi Beta Kappa.

From 1974 to 1976, Lightman was a postdoctoral fellow in astrophysics at Cornell University.

In 2003, Lightman founded the nonprofit Harpswell Foundation, whose mission is to empower a new generation of women leaders in Cambodia and the developing world.

In his scientific work, Lightman has made fundamental contributions to the theory of astrophysical processes under extreme temperatures and densities.

In 1981, Lightman began publishing essays about science, the human side of science, and the " mind of science ", beginning with Smithsonian and moving to Science 82, The New Yorker, and other magazines.

In 2007 Lightman released his most recent novel, Ghost, an examination of the dichotomies of the physical world and the spiritual world, scepticism and faith, the natural and the supernatural, and science and religion.

In 2003, Lightman founded the Harpswell Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower a new generation of women leaders in Cambodia and the developing world, specifically through housing, education, and leadership training.