David A. Smith (computer scientist)
David Alan Smith (born 1957, in
Early career
He began his programming life as a corporate analyst at Thermo Electron Corporation, where he worked to develop an enterprise-wide multi-user multidimensional hierarchical
Staff Scientist
Smith then moved to the Thomas Lord Research Center in 1986 as a staff scientist working on intelligent object manipulation using
Smith has been nominated by the Lockheed Martin to be one of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Nifty Fifty Speakers who will speak about his work and career to middle and high school students in October 2010.[1]
Interactive Games
In 1987, Smith created
Croquet Project
Smith was one of six principal architects of the
In 2018, Smith founded the Croquet corporation with other engineers from the project. In 2020, the company raised a seed round,[3] branding its main product, Croquet OS, as "the Operating System for the Open Metaverse".
Other work
Smith worked at Wearality Corporation on the Virtual World Framework. He is the co-founder of a machine learning company called Tanjo.ai.
References
- ^ "Nifty Fifty". Archived from the original on 2010-05-24. Retrieved 2010-05-17. retrieved 2010-16-05
- ^ Korolov, Maria (23 December 2011). "Teleplace gone; 3D ICC steps in to help customers". Hypergrid Business. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ^ "Croquet Launches Live Collaboration Development Platform for the Next Generation of Apps and Games for 5G and AR". 18 February 2020.
External links
- David A. Smith's blog
- David A. Smith article at the University of Chicago Magazine (June 1999). Retrieved on 2007-09-18