Veda Hlubinka-Cook

Veda Hlubinka-Cook^[2] (born Robert Cook, on December 26, 1964) is an American programmer and co-founder of Metaweb.^[3][4] The company was acquired by Google in 2010.^[1]

Veda Hlubinka-Cook
Cook in 2018
Born	Robert Cook (1964-12-26) December 26, 1964 (age 59) Long Beach, California, United States
Occupation	Computer programmer
Years active	2004-present
Organization(s)	Metaweb Technologies (acquired by Google in July 2010)[1]

Career

Cook was a video game programmer at Broderbund in the 1980s. She designed and wrote the games Gumball and D/Generation;^[5] was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia; and was technical director for The Last Express.^[6]

Personal life

She came out as transgender in 2017.^[2][7]

References

1. "Metaweb joins Google" (Press release). Metaweb. 2010-07-16. Archived from the original on 2012-05-30. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
2. "V. Cook's LinkedIn profile". Retrieved 2019-03-06.
3. Markoff, John (9 March 2007). "Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2022 – via NYTimes.com.
4. "Sharing what matters". The Economist. 7 July 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
5. Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers". Archived from the original on 2019-07-13. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
6. "Biography of Robert Cook". O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. O'Reilly Media. March 2007. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2008.
7. "Digital Dissent". Berkeley Center for New Media. 25 April 2017. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-21.

External links

Media related to Veda Hlubinka-Cook at Wikimedia Commons

• Interview with V. Cook | Technometria | IT Conversations at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 April 2019)
• U.S. patent 6,061,462 "Digital cartoon and animation process"