Greg Roberts (Designer)
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Greg Roberts (born September 18, 1969 in Bloomington, Indiana), is an American entrepreneur who is best known as a pioneering designer of interactive experiences, and for creating some of the first interface designs for broadband internet services.
In the late 1980s, while still attending Walter Johnson High School, Roberts worked under the direction of Dr. Gary Wind at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he led the design of novel pre-surgical visualization methods through custom software which he co-developed with Vojin Dvorak. These techniques, using 2d CAT scans to visualize three dimensional models of internal anatomy, are now standard practice in medicine.
Moving to Jacksonville, Florida, Roberts launched his first company, RamWorks, at the age of 18. In 1995 he was named Web Architect of Record for the first mass deployment of consumer broadband services in the United States, where he designed high speed web applications for the NFL and Mercedes-Benz, among others. Roberts sold the company in 1998 and moved to San Francisco, California where he founded BrightStreet.com, one of the first web based CRM companies.
Presently, Roberts lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he designs novel interactive experiences at his third company, PlayMotion. He is one of the first people to clearly articulate a strategy for imbuing silicon-based life, specifically robots, with a basic level of Metacommunicative_competence.
Roberts is the son of Dr. Anita Roberts, noted for her pioneering work with the TGF beta protein.
Roberts has two children.
