User:EdMercer

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This user is from, or living in, the city of São Paulo.
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My name is Eduardo Mercer and I live in São Paulo, Brazil. I work at a game development studio as the lead programmer. I specialize in physics engines, artificial intelligence and interface design, but in reality I'm a jack of all trades as most of us in the studio are.

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[edit] Short Bio

I was born in São José do Rio Preto, some 270 miles (450km) northwest of São Paulo, in 1979 and moved to the state capital the same year. Four years later my parents reallocated back to my hometown and we stayed there for the rest of my childhood. There I attended Elementary at Colégio Santo André, Junior-High at Anglo and High-School at COOPEC (Class of 1996). I spent one year preparing for my vestibular exams and moved once again to São Paulo in early 1998 to attend college. Two college false-starts later I moved once again to São José do Rio Preto and opened a the city's very first cybercafe, but my lack of managing skills and my admittance later the same year to the University of São Paulo's Polytech School brought it to a sudden end, missing the brazilian lan-house boom by a whole year. After a third attempt at getting a college degree I finally signed a temporary leave from USP in late 2005 and began developing games as a full-time job.

[edit] Academia

I have had three false-starts at a college degree, starting in 1998 up until 2005. I have studied:

[edit] Publishing

During my first year at USP I was employed as a trainee to the SIM-LME lab writing sigma-pi perceptron neural networks and remote instrumentation software for an electronic nose prototype. For this project I have authored and co-authored three papers:

  • "Nariz eletrônico", SILVA, Paulo Roberto de Souza et alli; Sao Paulo, USP, 2002 [1]
  • "Sistema de monitoração elétrica remota acessível via internet", MERCER, Eduardo F. et alli; São Paulo, USP, 2002 [2]
  • "Controle remoto de sistema embarcado", MERCER, Eduardo et alli; Sao Paulo, USP, 2002 [3]


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