GSA's New Tech Leader Says Group is Ready for Its Pixar Moment

Nextgov: Rob Cook, the new head of the General Services Administration’s tech wing, sees many parallels between where the Technology Transformation Service is today and where the collection of animators and techies who formed Pixar were in the mid-1980s.

In those early, fledgling days for computer animation, Cook, a talented software engineer—he’d later go on to win an Oscar for his revolutionary work in visual effects industry, including the development of Pixar’s RenderMan software—teamed with director John Lasseter to produce Pixar’s first animated short film, "Luxo Jr."

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