Zack Simpson

Zachary Booth Simpson is an engineer, scientist and artist.

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A high-school dropout, he was a game developer and the Director of Technology for Origin and Titanic Entertainment from 1991-1997.

Related Topics:
Origin - Titanic Entertainment

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He was Origin's only research fellow in 1998 during which time he wrote an early paper on the in-game economics of Ultima Online.

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In 1999, he began creating interactive art using projectors, cameras, and shadow detection algorithms under the name Mine-Control. His series of artworks entitled Shadow Garden is installed in museums world-wide. He also invented related methods using infrared to create large projected touch screens, flashlight interactions, and floor interactions which he has shown at SIGGRAPH 2002 and 2004.

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He also works as a molecular biologist at the Marcotte Lab, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin where he researches biological signal transduction, synthetic biology, and various other topics.

Related Topics:
Marcotte Lab - Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology - University of Texas at Austin - Synthetic biology

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