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Christopher Weaver is an American entrepreneur, author, software developer, scientist, and educator at MIT.〔 He is best known as the founder and CEO of Bethesda Softworks, where he was one of the creators and Executive Producer of the original ''The Elder Scrolls'' role-playing series. Weaver and Bethesda are also credited with the development of the first real-time physics engine for sports simulation used in Bethesda's Gridiron! videogame, that led to Bethesda being hired to create the original John Madden Football for Electronic Arts. Weaver also developed game screen captioning for the deaf - similar to closed captioning for television - and made it available as open source to all other game developers. Weaver was sole stockholder and CEO of Bethesda Softworks from 1986 to 1999. In 1999 Weaver co-founded ZeniMax Media to expand the company's development of multimedia platform products beyond videogames and became CTO. Today, Zenimax is one of the largest private videogame companies in the world, with ownership of numerous development studios and intellectual property comprising some of the best known titles in videogame history (listed below). As of 2014, Zenimax has fifteen divisions, seven wholly owned development studios, and offices in the US, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, China, Japan and Australia. An expert in interactive media, telecommunications, and entertainment software development, Weaver was the subject of a recent Mashable ''That Was Me'' episode entitled, (How One Man's Vision Helped Change the Videogame Industry ). He was also a subject of the book "Gamers at Work," which features "Interviews with the World’s most successful entrepreneurs in the video game industry."〔 ==Early Life and Education== Weaver excelled early in science. During High School, he worked at a microbiology laboratory and entered the New York Science Fair, winning first prize. He went on to win numerous other science awards on the national level. After his baccalaureate degree, Weaver earned dual graduate and post-graduate degrees in Computer Science and Japanese Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. After returning from Japan on a student exchange program and Princeton-in-Asia Scholarship, he was elected a University Scholar at Wesleyan and went on to complete an advanced dual degree (CAS) with specialty in Japanese and Physics. He also earned a graduate degree in Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A former associate of the Architecture Machine Group and Fellow of the MIT Research Program on Communications Policy, Weaver was appointed a Fellow of the Robotics Simulation Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon in 1995.〔 He is currently a Research Scientist in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. Weaver is also a Fellow of the Futures of Entertainment Consortium,〔(Futures of Entertainment: People ). Convergenceculture.org. Retrieved on 2013-04-25.〕 a Board Member of the Communications Technology Roadmap Group and Visiting Scientist in the MIT Microphotonics Center〔(Microphotonics Center Visiting Scientists ). Mph-roadmap.mit.edu. Retrieved on 2013-04-25.〕 and a member of the MIT Communications Forum. 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「Christopher Weaver」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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