Gene Ball
Gene Ball is a computer science researcher and computer programmer.
Ball obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma, and attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, completing a master's degree and finishing his doctorate in 1982. While at Rochester, he met Rick Rashid, and together they created Alto Trek,[1] one of the earlier networked multiplayer computer games.
In 1979, along with Rashid, Ball worked as a researcher Carnegie Mellon University. In 1983, he left academia for two years, spending 1983 and 1984 designing software at . In 1985, he became an assistant professor at the University of Delaware at Newark.
From 1991 until 2001 he was a researcher at Microsoft, leading the Persona Project, which focused on developing lifelike computer characters that could conversationally interact with users.
References[]
- Contributor biography in Emotions in Humans and Artifacts, by Robert Trappl, Paolo Petta, and Sabine Payr. ISBN 0-262-20142-9.
- ^ Markoff, John (2000-02-28). "Serious About Research, Microsoft Makes Time for a Game". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
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