Veda Hlubinka-Cook
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Cook in 2018
Veda Hlubinka-Cook[1] (born Robert Cook) is a co-founder of Metaweb.[2][3] She was a video game programmer at Broderbund in the 1980s. She designed and wrote the games Gumball and D/Generation;[4] was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia; and was technical director for The Last Express.[5] She came out as transgender in 2017.[1][6]
References[]
- ^ a b "LinkedIn profile". Retrieved 2019-03-06.
- ^ Markoff, John (2007-03-09). "Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- ^ "Sharing what matters". The Economist. 2007-07-07. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- ^ Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
- ^ "Biography of Robert Cook". . O'Reilly Media. 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- ^ "Digital Dissent". Berkeley Center for New Media. 2017-04-25. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
External links[]
Media related to Veda Hlubinka-Cook at Wikimedia Commons
- Interview with Robert Cook at IT Conversations
- U.S. Patent 6,061,462 "Digital cartoon and animation process"
Categories:
- Video game programmers
- Living people
- American video game designers
- Yale University alumni
- 1964 births
- Transgender and transsexual computer programmers
- LGBT studies articles needing attention
- Computer specialist stubs