Event class: company, computer, founded, software, design, development, new, game, technology, digital

Events with high posterior probability

Douglas Hofstadter	In 1995, Hofstadter's book Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies : Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought was the first book ever sold by Amazon.
Addison Fischer	In 1968, while working for West Virginia University, he created software that amplified the throughput capability of IBM mainframe systems up to 40 % (the high speed'' Executor'').
Eugene Jarvis	In 2008 Eugene Jarvis was named the first Game Designer in Residence by DePaul University's Game Development program.
Gene Amdahl	He left IBM again in September 1970, after his ideas for computer development were rejected, and set up Amdahl Corporation in Sunnyvale, California with aid from Fujitsu.
Ross J. Anderson	In 2002, he became an outspoken critic of trusted computing proposals, in particular Microsoft's Palladium operating system vision.
Erkki Ruuhinen	In addition his small company has designed logos and visual style for the following companies, products and communities : Ilmarinen Pension Insurance Company, Labsystems Oy, Marja Kurki Design, Garantia Insurance Company, Orion Diagnostica, The City of Helsinki, Helsinki Waterworks, Heureka the Finnish Science Center, Marketing Institute, The Association of Finnish Advertisers, Tampere Hall, Expomark, Pellervo Confederation of Finnish Cooperatives, Turva Insurance Company, WSOY Company Books, Valtra Valmet, Vantaa Energy, Yellow Transport, Crafts Association Taito Group and Taito-Shop retail stores, Find exhibitions of Finnish design held in nine European capitals of culture in 2000, Jyväskylä Educational Consortium and Jyväskylä Institute of Adult Education.
Andrew Herbert	In 1985 he left Cambridge to found his own contract research company (Architecture Projects Ltd - APM Ltd), which led projects to develop ANSA, the Advanced Network Systems Architecture.
Bruno Augenstein	In 1971 he departed RAND and co-founded Spectravision, Inc. with several colleagues to perform consulting work on space-related policy and technology issues, systems analysis, and other research areas.
Gareth Loy	# Loy, Gareth, `` Programming languages for computer music synthesis, performance, and composition,'' ACM Computing Surveys, 17 (2), June, 1985.
Nathon Gunn	In 1997, Gunn helped found the new media division of Miramax, and co-authored a plan for an online film studio, Miramax Digital with D'Arcy Young.
Steve Jobs	After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets.
Paul Suni	Since 1984, he has contributed to advancements in semiconductor electronics, photonics, digital imaging sensors and medical device s.
Adam Gee	He conceived the idea and co-wrote the script with interactive writer Tim Wright and writer/actor Ben Miller (Johnny English, etc.) Gee served as an advisor on the UK government's Byron Review of Children and New Technology (child safety with regard to internet and video games) published in March 2008.
American McGee	American McGee's Grimm, developed by his Shanghai-based game development studio Spicy Horse for the online service GameTap, was released in twenty-three weekly episodic segments, starting in 2007.
Mike Daisey	The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (2010) examines globalization by exploring the exploitation of Chinese workers through the lens of what Daisey describes as'' the rise and fall and rise of Apple, industrial design, and the human price we are willing to pay for our technology, woven together in a complex narrative.''
John Hagelin	In 1990, Hagelin founded Enlightened Audio Designs Corporation (EAD) with electronics engineer Alastair Roxburgh.
Christopher Erhardt	In 1998, Christopher Erhardt transitioned into an academic environment and became a Professor of Game Design and Production at DigiPen Institute of Technology.
Lo?c Dachary	When the project was completed, he took a sabbatical in 1989 to create the GNA, a non-profit group for the development and distribution of free software.
Frank Moore (performance artist)	He founded Love Underground Visionary Revolution (LUVeR) in 1999, a webstation combining live streaming and on-demand libraries of audio and video programming, described by Moore as a'' non-corporate, d. i. y., totally uncensored, noncommercial, nonprofit internet-only communal collective with 24-hour' live' programming (by amazing people) with' no-limits' content.''
Komeil Bahmanpour	In 1999, Komeil Bahmanpour was introduced to an American eforms software company willing to open overseas subsidiaries for the purpose of Middle East ern software development and marketing.
Melissa Arnot	In 2008, she joined Jeff Dossett and David Morton on the Everest Team Inspi (RED) to promote HIV/AIDs awareness and Microsoft and Dell products supporting Product Red.
Ashkan Pouya	In 2008, Ashkan Pouya published together with his colleague Saeid Esmaeilzadeh the paper `` Phantom innovation - a launching pad for innovation processes'' that explores the non-linearity of innovation processes.
Asa Dotzler	Dotzler is also co-founder of the Spread Firefox project with Blake Ross, launched in October 2004, where he spearheaded Mozilla's open source marketing program.
Jim Manzi (software entrepreneur)	In 1999, he left and joined Anthony Bruce and Scott Setrakian in founding Applied Predictive Technologies, a business analytics company, which'' pioneered the development of experimental methods now used by dozens of the world's largest corporations to set prices, pick new products, and identify and market to customers''.
Adam Powell (game designer)	Then in July 1999, he founded Powlex, which focused on web page design.
Jeff Robbins	Robbins was an employee of O'Reilly & Associates in the early 1990s and participated in the development of Global Network Navigator, the first commercial web publication, before founding the web design company Liquid Media in 1994.
Andy Hertzfeld	He was hired by Apple Computer as a systems programmer in 1979 and developed the Apple SilenType printer firmware and the first 80-column card for the Apple II.
Marc Laidlaw	He joined Valve Software while they were developing Half-Life (1998) and worked on the game's story and level design.
Robert S. Barton	In 1960, he became a consultant for Beckman Instruments working on data collection from satellite systems, for Lockheed Corporation working on satellite systems and organizing of data processing services, and for Burroughs continuing to work on the design concepts of the B5000.
Ray Tomlinson	In 1967 he joined the technology company of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, now BBN Technologies, where he helped develop the TENEX operating system including ARPANET Network Control Protocol and TELNET implementations.
Gopa Periyadan	Gopa Periyadan was one of co-founders of GDA Technologies Inc, one of the pioneering companies in Electronic Design Services (EDS) companies which was subsequently acquired by L & T Infotech Ltd in March 2007.
John Robb (author)	Robb was made a senior analyst in January 1996 and led the launch of Forrester's first research service dedicated to covering developments on the Internet, called'' Interactive Technologies''.
Roel Vertegaal	In 1994, Vertegaal developed one of the first inline PC webcams, info-mac.
Stewart Brand	In 1968, using the most basic of typesetting and page-layout tools, Brand and his colleagues created issue number one of The Whole Earth Catalog, a book with the significant subtitle,'' access to tools''.
Dan Nainan	In March 2012, Nainan performed for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak at the Apple Investor Summit held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
David A. Smith (computer scientist)	Based upon this experience, Smith founded Virtus Corporation in 1990 and developed Virtus Walkthrough, the first real-time 3D design application for personal computers.
Stephen Gilfus	In 2001 the company (Blackboard Inc.) began to explore'' mobile learning'' initiatives and Stephen joined a Mobile Steering Committee established and led by the President and CEO of McGraw-Hill Ryerson to answer the question'' What can `` anytime, anywhere'' access to learning material contribute to the education experience ?''
Peter Norton	Norton's first computer book, Inside the IBM PC : Access to Advanced Features & Programming (Techniques), was published in 1983.
Nancy Tellem	In June, 2012, reports surfaced that Microsoft was looking to hire Tellem to head the software giant's entertainment division, which included Zune and the company's Xbox and Xbox Live products.
Monika Hestad	Her book Branding and Product Design : An integrated perspective (2013) provides a summary of her research and how her findings are relevant for designers, marketers and managers.
Chris Lattner	In 2005, Apple Inc. hired Lattner to begin work bringing LLVM to production quality for use in Apple products.
Alex Seropian	In 2004, Seropian left Bungie and created Wideload Games, with the goal of streamlining game development.
Sundar Pichai	Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive.
William Saito	Saito made use of his bilingual upbringing in 1992 when Datastorm Technologies, Inc., intent on entering the Japanese market, asked I/O Software to localize Procomm Plus for NEC's PC98 series of computers.
Thomas M. Disch	In 1987, Disch collaborated with New Jersey software company Cognetics Corporation and games publisher Electronic Arts to create the interactive fiction text adventure Amnesia, which could be played on the Commodore 64, IBM PC or Apple II computers.
Yoshiyuki Tomino	At the 2009 CESA Developers Conference, Yoshiyuki used his keynote speech to criticize the gaming industry, citing that video games'' bringing no productivity at all'' and that'' consoles are just consuming electricity'', while stressing that game developers need to focus more on quality content rather than advanced technology, comparing it to the modern animation industry.
Stephen Gilfus	In 1997, during his senior year at Cornell University, he co-founded CourseInfo LLC, a small e-learning company focused on the development of an innovative course management system.
Andrew Himes	In 1992, he was founding editor of the Microsoft Developer Network, and then led the first web development project in the history of the company, a project dubbed the'' MSDN OffRamp'', aimed at making articles, resources, and technical information available on the Internet to an audience of software developers.
Gordon Walton	In 1984, he co-founded Applied Computing (later called Digital Illusions) with Don Gilman, and he was development manager for both Three-Sixty Pacific and Konami of America, Inc.
David H. Ahl	He edited EDU, DEC's newsletter on educational uses of computers, that regularly published instructions for playing computer games on minicomputer s. During the 1973 recession, DEC cut back on educational product development and Ahl was fired.
John W. Marchetti	In 1962, Marchetti, Inc., was formed in Natick, Massachusetts, with the primary objective of performing research and development on advanced radars.
Sandra Schaeffer	In 1984 Schaeffer and Balsamo formed TDC Games, a board game company, and produced their first game, entitled'' Adultrivia.''
David Ben	Ben served as the Magic Consultant in a number of areas including : In 1990, in addition to performing magic at corporate functions, Ben started speaking about creativity, innovation and problem-solving using the metaphor of magic to a wide range of businesses and associations in Canada and the United States.
Jonathan Gleich	In 1979, using an Apple II Plus computer, Gleich co-founded an NYC BBS called Earth News.
Thomas Reilly	On November 30, 2005 Reilly said that he was conducting an investigation of Sony BMG over their use of the XCP Digital Rights Management DRM on Sony audio CDs.
Leo Melamed	In 1987, Melamed spearheaded the creation and introduction of Globex, the world's first electronic trading system, and became its founding chairman.
Nick Bell (businessman)	In 2002 Nick Bell launched ZeroPlus a high growth audio visual technology business.
Gareth Loy	# Loy, Gareth, `` Designing a computer music workstation from musical imperatives,'' Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, San Francisco : International Computer Music Association, 1986.
J. C. R. Licklider	His 1968 paper The Computer as a Communication Device illustrates his vision of network applications and predicts the use of computer networks to support communities of common interest and collaboration without regard to location.
C. George Boeree	Boeree is also the inventor of the auxiliary language Lingua Franca Nova, introduced on the Internet in 1998.
Scott Hirsch	Hirsch got his start in online business when he first marketed contact lenses and other products online in 1992.
Palle Torsson	In 1995, Torsson closely collaborated with artist Tobias Bernstrup with whom he got international recognition as the first group of visual artists to use computer games in their art practice.
Douglas Gayeton	Gayeton ultimately left Propaganda Films in 1994 to start his own media consultancy, Gayetonstudio, where he created interactive projects for dozens of clients.
Joseph M. Juran	Working independently of W. Edwards Deming (who focused on the use of statistical process control), Juran -- who focused on managing for quality -- went to Japan and started courses (1954) in quality management.
Namita Shetty	In October 2010 Namita starting working with a San Francisco based content provider company, Wcities Inc. and was the moderator for their Twitter and Facebook pages called Go Out Mumbai while she continues to be an administrator and graphic designer for Missosology.
Emrah Yucel	In 2001, he launched' Iconisus Visual Communication Design' with his partner, an agency providing visual design, advertising, and branding services across a full spectrum of print, motion, interactive and other media.
Moazzam Begg	In 2009 Begg was a technical advisor, and slated to appear as himself, for Scottish software company T-Enterprise in the development of a video game entitled Rendition : Guantanamo, for Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Chris Hecker	The articles were part of a general push by Hecker to incorporate more interactive physics in games, which at the time in 1996 rarely featured any physical simulation.
John Lansdown	He pioneered the use of computers as an aid to planning ; making perspective drawings on an Elliott 803 computer in 1963, modeling a building's lifts and services, plotting the annual fall of daylight across its site, as well as authoring his own computer aided design applications.
Bruce Schneier	In 1994, Schneier published Applied Cryptography, which details the design, use, and implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
Hossein Rahnama	In 2003, he worked at Alpha Global Labs as a software and knowledge engineer working on medical expert systems and the applicability of mobile devices in medical settings.
Jann Wenner	Wenner was credited with spawning the music sensitized generation that served as the launchpad for the visions of Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs in an October 2010 huffingtonpost.
Stephen Warshall	In 1958, he left ORO to take a position at a company called Technical Operations, where he helped build a research and development laboratory for military software projects.
Edward Felten	On September 13, 2006, Felten and graduate students Ariel Feldman and Alex Halderman discovered severe security flaws in a Diebold Election Systems (now Premier Election Solutions) voting machine.
Garry Schyman	At the request of a friend in 1993, he composed the music for the video game Voyeur, but after creating the music for two more games he left the industry, citing the low budgets and poor quality of video game music at the time.
Mark Russinovich	In 1996, he and Bryce Cogswell cofounded Winternals Software, where Russinovich served as Chief Software Architect, and the web site, where Russinovich wrote and published dozens of popular Windows administration and diagnostic utilities including Autoruns,, Regmon, Process Explorer, TCPView, and RootkitRevealer among many others.
Dieter Rams	In Gary Hustwit's 2009 documentary film Objectified, Rams states that Apple Inc. is one of the few companies designing products according to his principles.
Steven McGeady	McGeady testified that Microsoft opposed Intel's 1995 work on a new technology called Native Signal Processing, which would have used instructions from Intel's chips, rather than software code from Microsoft, to run multimedia and communications programs more quickly.
Perry Kivolowitz	In 1985, he co-founded Advanced Systems Design Group which built hardware for the Commodore Amiga.
Eddy Willems	Since the beginning of 2010 he is working as Security Evangelist for the security company G Data Software AG.
Michael Levinsohn	He published a white paper, in July 2011, entitled : Ten Trends That Will affect The Future Of Mobile Marketing In December 2011, Lenco Mobile Inc, merged with iLoop Mobile Inc., a leading mobile marketing solutions company, based in Seattle WA.
John Robb (author)	Robb became the president of UserLand Software -- a pioneer in the development of XML-RPC, SOAP, RSS, and OPML -- in 2001.
Nicolas Michelin	In 2000, he founded ANMA - Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associés (Nicolas Michelin partnered with Michel Delplace and Cyril Trétout), which provides innovative solutions in architecture, urban design and landscaping.
Wendy Hall	In 2006, Hall became a founding director of the Web Science Research Initiative, along with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel Weitzner, in order to promote the discipline of Web Science and foster research collaboration between the University of Southampton and MIT.
Debra Searle	She gave up teaching after founding The Well Hung Art Company Ltd in 1999 with two friends, which promoted the work of lesser known artists via the web and sold original fine art to the corporate market.
Kirk Fernandez	Fernandez founded Solutionz Conferencing, Inc. (Solutionz) in 2001 and since its inception has grown it to be one of the leading video conferencing and audio visual (a/v) integration firms in North America by achieving the highest level of certification status from two of its leading manufacturers, Polycom and TANDBERG.
Kazuo Hirai	In August 1995, Hirai joined Sony's computer and video game division, Sony Computer Entertainment America.
Ross Williams (businessman)	Ross Williams (born 1978) is an internet entrepreneur who founded WhiteLabelDating, international provider of online dating systems that enable partners to set up their own branded online dating sites.
Stanley Jungleib	Since 1996 Jungleib had consulted with Opcode to merge his synthesizer with their Galaxy editor and StudioVision DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) system.
Robb Montgomery	Working as the group's CEO, Montgomery incorporated the Visual Editors social network in 2004 as a 501 (c) (3) non-profit charity, positioning the site as an educational exchange for student and professional journalists working in the world's newsrooms.
Stewart Kosoy	At ISM he represented clients working on such titles as Die Hard Trilogy 2 : Viva Las Vegas and Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare until he retired in December 2011, relinquishing his senior partnership.
Steve Kirsch	After he left the company, he co-founded Frame Technology Corp. in 1986 to market the FrameMaker publishing software.
Bill Inmon	In 1999, he created the Corporate Information Factory Web site to educate professionals and decision makers about data warehousing and the Corporate Information Factory.
Robert Ledley	Ledley published his survey findings in a November 6, 1959 Science article, `` Digital Electronic Computers in Biomedical Science,'' in which he called on biologists to train in mathematics and engineering in order to effectively use electronic digital computers.
Mikkel Aaland	Beginning in 2001, Aaland began publishing a number of guidebooks about using the computer design program Photoshop to enhance digital photography ; Photoshop Elements Solutions : The Art of Digital Photography was followed by second, third, and fourth volumes.
Steve Ballmer	Speaking at a conference in NYC in 2009, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer criticized Apple's pricing, saying,'' Now I think the tide has turned back the other direction (against Apple).
Matthias Ettrich	Ettrich founded and furthered the LyX project in 1995, initially conceived as a university term project.
Don Cassel	In 1968, after arriving at Humber from IBM, he developed the college's first Computer Programming program, which is still part of the curriculum.
Amy S. Bruckman	She founded the Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Computing (UROC) program at Georgia Tech in 1998, modeling it after MIT's UROP.
Glen Wexler	During 1992 Glen Wexler Studio established in-house digital imaging using Apple Inc. computers, and began employing full-time digital artists to assist with the retouching and photocomposition of Wexler's projects.