Christopher Weaver
American entrepreneur, author, software developer, scientist, and educator at MIT / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Christopher S. Weaver is an American entrepreneur, software developer, scientist, author, and educator. He is known for founding Bethesda Softworks, where he was one of the creators of The Elder Scrolls role-playing series.[1][2]
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Nationality | American |
Education | Dual Master's degrees (Japanese and Computer Science) and a dual CAS (doctoral) degree in Japanese and Physics |
Alma mater | Wesleyan University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Occupation(s) | Software and technology innovator, Entrepreneur, Educator at MIT |
Organization | Bethesda Softworks |
Known for | Founder of Bethesda Softworks and cofounder of ZeniMax Media |
Notable work | One of the creators of The Elder Scrolls series |
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Weaver and Bethesda are credited with developing the first real-time physics engine for sports simulation, used in Bethesda's Gridiron! video game.[3] Weaver also developed game screen captioning for the deaf and made it available as open source software.[4]