Christopher Weaver

Christopher Weaver is a software developer, game programmer, entrepreneur, the founder of Bethesda Softworks, and co-founder of ZeniMax Media. He led the development of the first physics engine for real-time sports simulation and helped design the original John Madden Football. With over thirty years of experience in computer games and telecommunications engineering, Weaver is currently fulfilling a dual appointment at M.I.T. teaching in the Comparative Media Studies Program and lecturing as a visiting scientist in the Microphotonics Center. He is Distinguished Professor of Computational Media at Wesleyan University and a Distinguished Research Scholar at the Smithsonian.