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 1989, Lightman was appointed professor of science and writing and senior lecturer in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ).

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

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.

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

" Lightman also wrote, " Las Vegas bookies probably would have given Sperling 100-to-1 odds against his business, but he not only survived, he grew the Apollo Group -- parent of University of Phoenix and related interests -- into a public company with a market capitalization ( as of May 2001 ) of almost $ 7 billion, making it roughly as successful as many vastly more publicized dot-com champions.

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.

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

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.

His first big hit film was WarGames, a summer hit in 1983 he played the main role of David Lightman, a Seattle teen hacker.

Einstein's Dreams is a 1992 novel by Alan Lightman that was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages.

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.

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

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

Falken, Lightman, and Mack convince military officials to cancel the second strike and ride out the non-existent attack.

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

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.

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

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.

Kauniainen was founded by a corporation in 1906, AB Grankulla, that parcelled land and created a suburb for villas ; Kauniainen received the status of a market town in 1920, the Finnish name in 1949, and the title of kaupunki (" city, town ") in 1972.

Avery received his AB degree in 1900 from Colgate University.

Late in the same year Johnson Line purchased Rederi AB Svea, and the former Svea ships received Johnson Line's blue / yellow colours.

After studies at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, he received an AB from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Chicago in 1950, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology ( STB ) in 1952, and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology ( STL ) in 1954, when he was ordained.

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She was a graduate of Germantown Friends School and received an AB from Bryn Mawr College in 1923.

Murdock received his AB in Government from Georgetown University in 1986 and his MBA in Marketing and International Business from New York University in 1989.

He received his university education at Ohio Wesleyan University, graduating with the AB in 1898.

Weil received both his medical degree and his undergraduate AB degree in biology ( botany ) from Harvard University.

In June 2011 he received the award Chair of the Year 2011 Årets Ordförande for his work in Cardo AB from Styreinformasjon as in Oslo.

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He was educated at Amherst College, where he received his AB, and at Columbia University, where he earned his PhD.

Clough studied at the University of Calgary, where she received her AB in Social Psychology in 1987 and her MA in Social Scientific Study of Religion in 1989.

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Returning to Hahn AB following an October 1990 training deployment to Zaragoza AB, Spain, 10th TFS commander Lt. Col. Ed Houle received notice to prepare his unit for possible deployment.

He graduated from The Hill School and then received an AB in history from Haverford College.

He resumed study at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and received his AB in Greek 1928.

He entered the University of Michigan in 1853, but in the next year went to Yale College, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and from which he graduated AB in 1857, and received the degree of A. M. in 1863.