To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

* T. Porter and T. Duff, " Compositing Digital Images ", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ' 84, 18 ( 1984 ).

* T. Porter and T. Duff, " Compositing Digital Images ", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ' 84, 18 ( 1984 ).

Randall and Joseph A. Porter ( editors ), Renaissance Papers 1984: Southeastern Renaissance Conference ( North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1985 ), 29 – 36

The term competitive advantage is the ability gained through attributes and resources to perform at a higher level than others in the same industry or market ( Christensen and Fahey 1984, Kay 1994, Porter 1980 cited by Chacarbaghi and Lynch 1999, p. 45 ).

: The Darrell Porter Story, T. Nelson, 1984.

Subsequent extensions to Porter station and Davis station on December 8, 1984, and to Alewife station on March 30, 1985 brought the Red Line to its current terminus.

* T. Porter and T. Duff, " Compositing Digital Images ", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ' 84, 18 ( 1984 ).

* Garth Porter – keyboards, clavinet, piano, lead vocals, backing vocals, Hammond organ, electric piano, synthesiser ( 1970 – 1984, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2011 )

He and Thomas Porter, another Lucasfilm employee, developed a new approach to compositing images ; their 1984 paper, " Compositing Digital Images ",

The Red Line was extended from Harvard to Alewife via Porter and Davis in the 1980s, with the Davis station opening on December 8, 1984.

In 1984 the Red Line was extended from Harvard through Porter and Davis Square to its present terminus at Alewife, a project that also left Porter with its most visible landmark, Susumu Shingu's 46-foot stainless steel kinetic sculpture entitled Gift of the Wind.

Porter served as Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 1984 and 1995.

* T. Porter and T. Duff, " Compositing Digital Images ", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ' 84, 18 ( 1984 ).

In a 1984 article written with Robert Porter published in Econometrica, Green and Porter showed that price wars can periodically occur even among firms that are colluding in an optimal fashion.

After the 1984 tournament, Porter was the only NAIA player to be invited to the 1984 U. S. Olympic Team trials.

Porter made it to the final 20 ( even though he had the chicken pox ), but on a team that was heavy on guards ( Jordan, Alford, Vern Fleming, Alvin Robertson, and Leon Wood ), Porter was cut on May 13, 1984 along with Charles Barkley and John Stockton.

* Andrew Porter, Political Editor since 2007 of the Daily Telegraph ( 1984 – 91 )

Christenangst und Judenplage im Zeitalter von Humanismus und Reformation, Berlin: Severin und Siedler, 1981 ); English translation: The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation, translated by James I. Porter ( Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984 )

Soderberg played basketball in college at Ripon College from 1980 to 1982 before he transferred to University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, playing at Stevens Point from 1982 to 1984 under head coach Dick Bennett, and with Terry Porter ( who later became player and evntually a head coach in the National Basketball Association ).

In 1984 he wrote a proposal to get a position through the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

* Jennings Michael Burch-Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel They Cage the Animals at Night which is a memoir of that period of his life.

In 1984, four Berkeley students — Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle, and Songnian Zhou — wrote the first Unix implementation, called The Berkeley Internet Name Domain ( BIND ) Server.

The novelist Compton Mackenzie lived on Barra and George Orwell wrote 1984 whilst living on Jura.

In 1984, Mark Peterson wrote The Realm of Angmar, beginning as a clone of Scepter of Goth.

Redstockings co-founder Ellen Willis wrote in 1984 that radical feminism " got sexual politics recognized as a public issue ", " created the vocabulary … with which the second wave of feminism entered popular culture ", " sparked the drive to legalize abortion ", " were the first to demand total equality in the so-called private sphere " (" housework and child care ,… emotional and sexual needs "), and " created the atmosphere of urgency " that almost led to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

In the autumn of 1984, Twain's talents were noticed by Toronto DJ Stan Campbell who wrote about her in a Country Music News article: " Eilleen possesses a powerful voice with an impressive range.

In 1984, Joseph Ben-David wrote:

Simon Reynolds wrote in his book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 – 1984 that " The Residents and their ' representatives ' were one and the same ", elaborating on one of his blogs that " this was something that anybody who had any direct dealings with Ralph figured out sooner rather than later.

* 1984: British Pop impresario Malcolm McLaren wrote and performed a UK hit single, " Madame Butterfly ( Un bel dì vedremo )", produced by Stephen Hague, based on the opera and featuring the famous aria.

Sister and brother wrote very different memoirs about Bloomsbury, Angelica ’ s being Deceived by Kindness ( 1984 ) and Quentin ’ s Elders and Betters ( 1995 ).

He wrote a spec script in 1984 and sent it directly to Filmation.

Coincidentally Ernst wrote a Happy New Year-message for Popfoto-magazine in which he expressed hope for a better outcome of 1984 than predicted in the book he once read.

Aykroyd originally wrote the role of Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters ( 1984 ) with Belushi in mind, but rewrote the part for Bill Murray after Belushi died.

Pertwee wrote two autobiographies: Moon Boots and Dinner Suits ( published in 1984 ), which primarily covers his life and career prior to Doctor Who, and the posthumously published Doctor Who: I Am the Doctor – Jon Pertwee ’ s Final Memoir ( published in 1996 by Virgin Publishing Ltd and co-written with David J. Howe ), which covered his life during and after the series.

Warren M. Bodie, journalist, historian, and Skunk Works engineer from 1977 to 1984, wrote that engineering independence, elitism and secrecy of the Skunk Works variety was demonstrated earlier when Lockheed was asked by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey ( later Brigadier General, USAF ) to build for the United States Army Air Corps a high speed, high altitude fighter to compete with German aircraft.

" These pseudonyms include: Jamie Starr and The Starr Company ( for the songs he wrote for The Time and many other artists from 1981 – 1984 ), Joey Coco ( for many unreleased Prince songs in the late 1980s, as well as songs written for Sheena Easton & Kenny Rogers ), Paisley Park ( occasionally used in the early 1990s for his production credits on songs, including those written for Martika and Kid Creole ), Alexander Nevermind ( for writing the 1984 song " Sugar Walls " by Sheena Easton ), and Christopher ( used for his song writing credit of " Manic Monday " for The Bangles ).

Stockdale wrote in his 1984 book Love and War: " had the best seat in the house to watch that event, and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets — there were no PT boats there ...

Attwood also wrote an original novel called Afterlife, which is set after the final episode and was published by Target in 1984.

The German company StarDivision in Lüneburg ( founded by 16-year-old Marco Börries in 1984 ) wrote the original components of StarOffice.

Kelly wrote the book Fighting for Hope in 1984, published by South End Press.

Maggin wrote Superman # 400 ( Oct. 1984 ) which featured work by several popular comics artists including the only major DC work by Jim Steranko as well as an introduction by noted science-fiction author Ray Bradbury.

Upon the release of the 2010 remake, Dana Stevens wrote, " The 1984 original ... may have seemed like a standard-issue inspirational sports picture at the time, but ( as with another box-office hit of the same year, The Terminator ) a generation of remove reveals what a well-crafted movie it actually was.

In his 1984 High Court judgment, which considered many aspects of Scientology, Justice Latey wrote that " many examples disconnection have been given and proved in evidence.