And I think what is really interesting is the bomb dropping-- there is so much in the history about Los Alamos that happened even after those events actually occurred that there is so much history and texture to explore.And what Sam has done brilliantly, much like if you think about something like "Titanic," which was a huge phenomenon and everyone
II, the Manhattan Project. Los Alamos had some heavy calculations they wanted done. And so that came out during the winter of 1945 and use the ENIAC to do some of those calculations.
There's still incidences. It still happens that we have to kick people out of the theater. I went Alamo Drafthouse in 2003 in Austin.
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. Like there was an Alamo Drafthouse that we shepherded that was this.
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. There was an Alamo Drafthouse that we didn't have any involvement with, this.
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. He moved down to Alamo , we got him a job as a bartender.
That would give him some sort of statistical approximation of the answer. Back at Los Alamos , the remaining scientists grappled with much harder problems than Solitaire, like figuring out how neutrons behave inside a nuclear core. In a nuclear core, there are trillions and trillions of neutrons all interacting with their surroundings.
And I took my camera with me. the history of Los Alamos that went on with the nuclear weapons and all that interesting history that I really didn't know much about.
My grandmother worked on the Manhattan Project. Not in Los Alamos . Wow. That's amazing. So it's very nice to see her-- not her exact work, but her contribution rewarded in a way.
that followed it. And so for me, from my standpoint, actually the most exciting and interesting story material takes place after this war has ended, and Los Alamos remained the center for weapons development for decades afterward. Still is, but that great moral clarity of World War II was gone, and so at that moment where we enter this Cold War
DARPA pumped an enormous amount of money into its urban operation programs, and it created a system called Combat Zones That See. I went to Los Alamos to look at the synthetic brain that DARPA is creating out there.
Phillip Taubman: Speak up a little bit, please. I went to Los Alamos to try to understand the origins of the bomb.
Thatís the first magnetic drive, so thatís the ancestor of your hard disc. Thatís Nick Metropolisís Los Alamos badge, now heís playing first game of computer chess against the MANIAC at Los Alamos .
But do you still find the core of what you guys do is maintained by this kind of care and loving thing that you put into all of your. Like I assume everybody who works for Alamo is as passionate as you are about the things that they do for it. That's what we aspire to for sure.
There's still incidences. It still happens that we have to kick people out of the theater. And I talk up the Alamo Drafthouse.
So, that's the, I guess there's a little bit of a segue here. but that's the origin of the Alamo . And how we got to the first location.
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. He has to be programming at the Alamo Drafthouse.
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. And he came to the Alamo , similar way.
When the barrier stopped her, Alien acted startled, purposely trying to catch the guard's eye. And I got a tour through Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is crazy.
was the most powerful electronics company in the world, announced the most expensive and complicated engineering project in history. And it was more complicated than Los Alamos . Because that project was only doing one thing.
part of what's exciting to us. And in writing about women at Los Alamos , and the experience of female physicists, and the experience of brilliant women who were wives, who were excluded from the secret-- those are the kind of people who I think usually are left on the margins of stories about the Manhattan Project and about this moment in history.
And there was Bobby Hunt, who in 1977, finally suggested that Bayes' could be used for image restoration. He had done it while working on strategic weapons programs and digital image processing at Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico. During this period, others were introducing iterations and Monte Carlo. And, in 1974.
Earth a lot of times money congeals into places in the southwest various uh research institutions military bases places like Los Alamos obviously uh places like vandenbberg Air Force Base which is like uh this is where they launch spy satellites for example um
The United States could have sanctions on Korea and Iran like it has with Cuba until the end of time. All it's doing is promoting what I call the Alamo strategy. They will fight to the last man standing.
And this is nice to see a theater being restored to being a theater instead of a futon shop and serving its original purpose. I think a big thing for me it seemed like the Alamo Drafthouse community-- is being a part of the community. Do you have any plans to integrate into that area?
of becoming forward on that movie. But it's a straight-down-the-middle Alamo Drafthouse type of movie. Seth Rogen comedies do well for us.
There's still incidences. It still happens that we have to kick people out of the theater. But they're not necessarily-- there's not an Alamo in every city.
The man who dreamt, drafted, and directed, a rebirth in the theater experience. Tim League. The Alamo Drafthouse. Tim: Hey!
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. Like a lot of people misunderstand the identity of the Alamo .
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. But he's now the Director of Beverage for Alamo Drafthouse.
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. So back about six years ago we sold Alamo Drafthouse.
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. And I probably can't do this in any internal Alamo talks along this.
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. The other thing that we like to do at the Alamo is try to go over the top when we possibly can.
biological scaling relationships? And then the president at the time said, "You know what? I know of this physicist who's up at Los Alamos who was talking about biological scaling relationships." And so we met Geoffrey and it was like immediately, it's like we'd been talking about the same things for like years.
For example, Los Alamos National Labs is right on the river.
When the barrier stopped her, Alien acted startled, purposely trying to catch the guard's eye. She had a boss between those two things at Los Alamos National Laboratory who would not let her work start working for him until she
DARPA pumped an enormous amount of money into its urban operation programs, and it created a system called Combat Zones That See. But of course, Los Alamos needs the best computer that there is, so-- And they can't reuse it, because it has the nuclear codes on it.
George Dyson: And I like to think, you know, maybe that was, maybe that was my contact with Von Neumann. And these guys had so much fun at Los Alamos , I mean, these are theoretical mathematicians who never touched real hardware and then suddenly theyíre allowed to play with high explosives in machine shops. Dick Feynman standing on the left in 1949, the photo taken by Nick Metropolis who developed the Monte Carlo algorithm.
Hi, everyone welcome to "Talks at Google." My name is Dana. And it's my pleasure today to introduce Tim League from the Alamo Drafthouse. Great to be here.
So it seems highly appropriate to have a man who revolutionized the theater experience join us this morning. From my seat at least, the Alamo Drafthouse took a concept that we all accepted as good enough and reinvented it so that it made everything else at that point seem obsolete. Sound familiar? Maybe like Apple or Google?
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. So he's one of the guys that has joined the programming department at the Alamo .
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. He's the guy that was the first employee to handle the Alamo pre-show which is the video montage of clips that happens before the movie.
And I, uh, well we went through an exercise to go through it. And hopefully the lesson is that they're not welcome at the Alamo until they can change their behavior.
In America, we celebrated the people at Alamogordo that built the atomic bomb.
I'll read from a paper written by a former director of Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Laboratory.
Then combine with, is the story in the hands? I know there's a regular Tuesday night pizza party at some bar in Los Alamos where people watch the show and talk about it.
So she wrote all the early codes and these letters were all back and forth. Heís, like there heís at Los Alamos , sheís in Washington D.C. And there sheís at Aberdeen where the ENIAC was, so sheís writing codes for the ENIAC and heís, uh, at Oak Ridge laboratory, nuclear laboratory in Tennessee.
in machine shops. Dick Feynman standing on the left in 1949, the photo taken by Nick Metropolis who developed the Monte Carlo algorithm. So they were intoxicated, I mean once Los Alamos was over they werenít gonna go back to teaching calculus or anything like that. They wanted, and the computer, that was the next thing after.
the utopian pipe dream the elimination of nuclear weapons the kinds of things the los alamos scientists after the
There's still incidences. It still happens that we have to kick people out of the theater. Sure. The question is basically the specifics about the Alamo Drafthouse from the table configuration to the service model-- how much of that was preconceived?