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Luc Barthelet
Luc Barthelet (born 1962) is a French tech executive, known for his role in the development of games in the Sims and Simcity series as the general manager of Maxis after their acquisition by EA. He was formerly the CTO and President of Technology at Electronic Arts. He joined Unity Technologies in December 2018. Between 1988 and May 2008 he worked for Electronic Arts. As Group Studio Head, Electronic Arts, he was instrumental in the development of persistent state worlds, including the alternate reality game '' Majestic'', and the MMOs ''Motor City Online'', '' Earth and Beyond'', ''Ultima Online'' and ''The Sims Online''. From 1997-2004, Barthelet was also general manager of Maxis, where he led product development for titles such as ''The Sims'', ''The Sims 2'', ''SimCity 4'' and ''SimCity 3000''. After leaving EA, he became the CEO of TirNua, Inc., developers of the browser-based MMO of the same name. During this time, Barthelet was also on the advisory board of Mixamo. TirNu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sims
''The Sims'' is a series of life simulation video games developed by Maxis and Video game publisher, published by Electronic Arts. The franchise has sold nearly 200 million copies worldwide, and is one of the List of best-selling video game franchises, best-selling video game series of all time. It is also part of the larger List of Sim video games, ''Sim'' series, started by ''SimCity (1989 video game), SimCity'' in 1989. The games in the ''Sims'' series are largely sandbox games, in that they lack any defined goals (except for some later expansion packs and Video game console, console versions which introduced this gameplay style). The player creates virtual people called "Sims", places them in houses, and helps direct their moods and satisfy their desires. Players can either place their Sims in pre-constructed homes or build them themselves. Each successive expansion pack and game in the series augmented what the player could do with their Sims. Development Game designer W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SimCity 4
''SimCity 4'' is a city-building game, city-building Construction and management simulation games, simulation Personal computer game, computer game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. The game was released in January 2003 for Microsoft Windows and in June 2003 for Mac OS X. It is the fourth major installment in the SimCity, ''SimCity'' series. ''SimCity 4'' has a single expansion pack called SimCity 4: Rush Hour, ''Rush Hour'' which adds features to the game. ''SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition'' contains the original game and ''Rush Hour'' combined as a single product. The game allows players to create a region of land by terraforming, and then to design and build a settlement which can grow into a city. Players can zone different areas of land as commerce, commercial, Industrial sector, industrial, or residential area, residential development, as well as build and maintain public services, transport and public utility, utilities. For the success of a city, players must ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1962 Births
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Netherlands, Dutch rail disaster. * January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact. * January 12 – The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian. * January 13 – People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China. * January 15 ** Portugal abandons the United Nations General Assembly due to the debate over Angola. ** French designer Yves Saint Laurent (designer), Yves Saint Laurent launches Yves Saint Lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Media Guide
RhythmOne , a subsidiary of Nexxen, is an American digital advertising technology company that owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel. Blinkx was founded in 2004, went public on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2007, and began trading as RhythmOne in 2017. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and London, England. RhythmOne acquired All Media Network and its portfolio of web properties in April 2015. In April 2019, RhythmOne merged with Taptica International (renamed Tremor International in June 2019), an advertising technology company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. History Blinkx was named after blinkx.com, an Internet Media platform which connects online video viewers with publishers and distributors, using advertising to monetize those interactions. Blinkx has an index of over 35 million hours of video and 800 media partnerships, as well as 111 patents related to the site's search engine technology, which is kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Flannery
Sarah Flannery (born 1982, County Cork, Ireland) is an Irish mathematician who was, at sixteen years old, the winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition for her development of the Cayley–Purser algorithm, based on work she had done with researchers at Baltimore Technologies during a brief internship there. The project, entitled "Cryptography – A new algorithm versus the RSA", also won her the EU Young Scientist of the Year Award in 1999. Biography Flannery's education included a primary all-girls school and secondary education at Scoil Mhuire Gan Smál in Blarney. Following the competition win, in 2001 Flannery co-authored ''In Code'' with her father, mathematician David Flannery (1952-2023). It tells the story of the making and breaking of the Cayley-Purser algorithm, as well as the enjoyment she got from solving mathematical puzzles while growing up. She dedicates many of her accomplishments in the fields of mathematics and cryptography to her father's support du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
