User:Csweaver
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Biography of Christopher Weaver (aka Chris Weaver and CS Weaver)
Christopher Weaver founded Bethesda Softworks, a software entertainment company that has won every major national and international industry award since its creation in 1986, including over one hundred “Best of Year” awards, an ADC award; two Clio awards, and the coveted Golden CyberLion at Cannes. Weaver has a history of seminal contribution to both academic and commercial development in interactive multimedia and holds numerous patents in the field.
Weaver is president of Media Technology, Ltd. and most recently acted as Chief Scientist for Hillcrest Communications, an engineering firm specializing in advanced graphic interface and media gateways. Prior to Hillcrest, he co-founded ZeniMax Media Inc., and was Chief Engineer to the Congressional Subcommittee on Communications; Vice President of Science & Technology for the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and directed the Office of Technology Forecasting for the American Broadcasting Company.
Weaver holds graduate and post-graduate degrees in Computer Science and Japanese from Wesleyan University and in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon returning from Japan on an International Institute of Education scholarship, he was elected a University Scholar and went on to complete a dual doctoral degree in Japanese and Physics. A former member of the Architecture Machine Group and Fellow of the MIT Communications and Policy Program, Weaver was appointed a Fellow of the Robotics Simulation Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon in 1995, a Visiting Scholar and Advisory Board Member of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT in 1999, and a CTR Board Member and Senior Fellow in the MIT Microphotonics Center in 2005. He was inducted into the Cosmos Club in 2005.
A member of the American Academy of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Society for Cable Television Engineers, the Society for Motion Picture Engineers and the American National Standards Committee, Weaver contributed to some of the earliest work in graphic interface, optical storage and broadband communications. He was the principal architect of the first interactive catalog for Federated Department Stores in 1982; helped design the Western Union satellite network; was one of the designers of the data communications system for the U.S. Congress, and the youngest scientist ever appointed by the National Academy of Sciences to represent the United States delegation at the XXth Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).
Technical advisor to the hit film, “Independence Day,” Writer/Producer Dean Devlin and Director Roland Emmerich used Weaver as the basis for the character played by Jeff Goldblum in the movie. Weaver has numerous interests which include flying, playing the harpsichord and kite building. He subscribes to Arthur C. Clarke's theory that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” and has concluded that in life, as in quantum mechanics, for every minute a person spends flying, that full minute is not subtracted from your life span.
