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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.