Veda Hlubinka-Cook (born Robert Cook, on December 26, 1964) is an American programmer and co-founder of

Metaweb Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Francisco-based company that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was co-founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook and John Giannandrea in 2005 ...

. The company was acquired by

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in 2010. She was a

video game programmer A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebases for video games or related software, such as game development tools. Game programming has many specialized disciplines, all of which fall ...

Broderbund Broderbund Software, Inc. (stylized as Brøderbund) was an American maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools. Broderbund is best known for the 8-bit video game hits ''Choplifter'', ''Lode Runner'', ''Karateka'', and '' ...

in the 1980s. She designed and wrote the games '' Gumball'' and '' D/Generation''; was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game '' Prince of Persia''; and was technical director for ''

The Last Express ''The Last Express'' is an adventure video game designed by Jordan Mechner and published by Broderbund in 1997 for PC. Players take on the role of an American who accepts an invite by a friend to join them on the Orient Express, days before the ...

''. She came out as

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in 2017.

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