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Simon Cooke (born 10 August 1975, Manchester, England, UK) is a British video game developer, currently resident in Seattle, Washington. ==Biography== Cooke went to Secondary School at St. Ambrose College on a scholarship, followed by studying Physics with Electronic Engineering at UMIST. Cooke was Director of Engineering〔(X-Ray Kid Studios Employee list )〕 for X-Ray Kid Studios, a cross-media entertainment company, and previously worked for Surreal Software, a subsidiary of Midway Games, as Principal Technology Engineer and Lead Gameplay Engineer on ''This is Vegas'', and as Lead Tools Programmer on ''The Suffering: Ties That Bind''. He worked as an internationally published professional freelance journalist for five years,〔(Journalism History )〕 starting out writing for ''Your Sinclair''〔(Joystick Jugglers )〕 magazine as a regular contributor (writing the ''Spec Tec Jr'' technical help column), and later worked as a freelance writer for ''Internet Today'', ''Internet and Comms Today'', ''.net'', ''How To Get Online'', ''Online World'' and ''arcane''.〔(I Was A Live Action Roleplaying Virgin )〕 In 1994 his definition of the Internet〔(Learning Webs: A Look to the Future – Some Terms and Concepts )〕 ''The Net is possibly the largest store of information on this planet. Everybody can be part of it; it is one of the few places where race, creed, colour, gender, sexual preference do not prejudice people against others. All this through the magic of modern technology. Communication is the key. People talking to people. The Net isn't computers. That's just the way we access it. The Net is people helping each other in a worldwide community'', was selected by the BBC in a UK competition, and was used for several years by the British Government's National Council for Education in Technology. After his article, "Love Over The Wires", was published in ''.net''magazine in 1994, he appeared on a BBC Open University radio program, ''Mathematics of Love'', recorded in a singles bar in the south end of London. Further coverage on his article also appeared in ''The Daily Mail'' a year later in an article best described as woefully factually inaccurate. His article "Rumour Control"〔(Rumour Control )〕 in ''Internet Todays issue 8, regarding the Communications Decency Act of 1996 was used to help shape Internet policy in the British House of Commons (as part of the Labor Government's Internet Task Force), and also was sent to several congressmen in the United States Government. Several of his articles on the early rise of the Internet as a medium outside of academia (i.e. after the Eternal September when it became available to the masses) have been used as course materials by sociology courses in several universities, including Queen's University Belfast. Tutorials he wrote for .NET magazine were handed out to first year college students at Queen's University, Australia. In 2001, he co-founded Popcorn Films with former co-workers at Sierra Online, and has so far been involved in the production of two short films, ''The Good Samaritan'' and ''Finn's Last Dance''. His unproduced screenplay ''Unsealed'' was the highest-rated short screenplay for February 2008 on Francis Ford Coppola's (Zoetrope.com ) writing website.〔()〕 He is most well known for his work on the SAM Coupé home computer.〔(Article )〕 He also wrote most of the code for Scaleform's Unreal Engine integration. Cooke currently works for Microsoft in their Advanced Technology Group, and is an expert on Kinect and other Microsoft games technologies, and speaks at game developer conferences.〔(GDC 2011 Kinect Developer Summit Speakers )〕 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「Simon Cooke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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