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Bonnie Ross is a video games developer and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Studios. Ross established and is the head of 343 Industries, the subsidiary studio that manages the ''Halo'' video game franchise.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Fortune )〕 Ross' career in the video game industry began in 1994, starting as a producer working on PC sports games. In addition to the ''Halo'' franchise, she has worked on many other game titles including ''NBA: Inside Drive'', ''Pandora’s Box'', ''Zoo Tycoon'', ''Dungeon Siege'', ''Counter Strike'', ''Gears of War'', ''Jade Empire'', ''Psychonauts'', and ''Mass Effect''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Anita Borg Institute )〕 Ross was listed in ''Fortune'' magazine's 2014 article "10 powerful women in video games", which noted that she was "responsible for defining the vision and leading the Halo franchise, which has sold more than 60 million copies worldwide" and had "helped grow the Halo franchise beyond gaming" with books, video series and TV series.〔 In October 2014, Ross appeared as a speaker at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, held in Phoenix, Arizona, presenting on "Technology and How It Is Evolving Storytelling in Our Entertainment Experiences".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Anita Borg Institute )〕 She has also made appearances as a speaker at ''GeekWire 2013''〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Geekwire )〕 and Microsoft's ''ThinkNext 2015'' in Israel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Microsoft )〕 Ross was also the lead speaker for Microsoft's presentation at the 2015 "E3" Electronic Entertainment Expo. Microsoft's Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, was reported in ''The Huffington Post'' as saying, "We opened the show with Bonnie. She's got such authenticity as someone who has been with Xbox a long time, running our biggest franchise and being a spokesperson for the platform, the industry and 'Halo.'" Ross has taken a strong stance against the use of gendered insults on Xbox Live servers, claiming that lifetime bans would be issued to those making discriminatory comments. She has argued that game developers have a "personal responsibility" to avoid gendered stereotyping in their games. Ross graduated from Colorado State University in 1989 with a degree in Technical Communication and a concentration in Physics and Computer Science. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bonnie Ross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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