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UDEN Utah Digital Entertainment Network UDEN Utah Digital Entertainment Network UDEN Utah Digital Entertainment Network UTproud Utahs digital entertainment roots run deep From back in the day with Evans and Sutherland pioneering 3D graphics at the University of Utah spurning radical innovations and top innovators and a deep history of involvement with the film industry including Sundance not to mention some of your favorite movie scenes from blockbusters such as Forrest Gump Thelma and Louise Dumb and Dumber and Independence Day. Many of your favorite video games have Utah roots including Pong Disney Infinity Animal Jam and Fortnite. Tech Innovators Jim Clark who started Silicon Graphics Ed Catmull cofounder of Pixar Alan Kay one of the one of the fathers of objectoriented programming John Warnock of Adobe Scott P. Hunter of Oracle Nolan Bushnell one of the founding fathers of the video game industry The University of Utah was one of the original four nodes of ARPANET the embryo of the current worldwide Internet and more.