For the first time in over a year I attended a university lecture: Loren Carpenter (co-founder and chief scientist at Pixar Animation Studios) spoke today at Tokyo University about the history of Pixar, his work for them and for Lucasfilm, and his ideas for audience interaction in digital movies. There were no technical details (which I would not have understood anyway, I guess), but he showed clips from some of their movies, pictures of his Academy Awards and of Pixar's interesting new (earthquake-resistant) office complex.