The player: an engineer reinvents herself as a video-game developer

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Engineer Tobi Saulnier started out as a contract programmer at GE's research center before joining the video game developer Vicarious Visions after earning her PhD. Saulnier credits her engineering education for giving her the problem solving skills that are needed for video game production.

Game, Toy, and Children's Vehicle Manufacturing, Games, toys, and children's vehicles, Electronic Games, Practice, Education, Computer programmers, Video games, Authorship, Women engineers, Software developers (Individuals), Saulnier, Tobi

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Why are so many patents pending? Spectrum visits the U.S. Patent Office to find out

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The challenge at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) how to use the existing system to shorten the 24 months that it now takes to process most applications.

General services, Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Patent Programs, Federal Govt Computer Sys, Management, Column, Company systems management, Information management, Copyrights, Company business management, Patents, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, Patent/copyright issue, Government systems management, Government computer systems, Federal government computer systems

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The Insomniacs

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The development of the computer game, Insomniac Games, by programmers at Sony Corp., is described.

Prepackaged software, Product development, Market information - general, Household audio and video equipment, Personal & Home Computers, Japan, Consumer electronics industry, Supply and demand, Computer games, Sony Corp., Computer game, SNE, Chip sets (Computers), Chipsets, Chipset

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