Veda Hlubinka-Cook

Veda Hlubinka-Cook
Cook in 2018
Born
Robert Cook

(1964-12-26) December 26, 1964 (age 60)
Long Beach, California, United States
OccupationComputer programmer
Years active2004-present
Organization(s)Metaweb Technologies
(acquired by Google in July 2010)[1]

Veda Hlubinka-Cook[2] (born Robert Cook, on December 26, 1964) is an American video game designer, software developer, and co-founder of Metaweb.[3][4] The company was acquired by Google in 2010.[1]

Career

Cook was a video game programmer at Broderbund in the 1980s. She designed and wrote the games Gumball and D/Generation;[5] was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia; and was technical director for The Last Express.[6]

Personal life

She came out as transgender in 2017.[2][7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Metaweb joins Google" (Press release). Metaweb. 2010-07-16. Archived from the original on 2012-05-30. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  2. ^ a b "V. Cook's LinkedIn profile". Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  3. ^ Markoff, John (9 March 2007). "Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2022 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ "Sharing what matters". The Economist. 7 July 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
  5. ^ Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers". Archived from the original on 2019-07-13. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  6. ^ "Biography of Robert Cook". O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. O'Reilly Media. March 2007. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
  7. ^ "Digital Dissent". Berkeley Center for New Media. 25 April 2017. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-21.

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