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On Friday, May 8th, 1998, several game developers who specialize (or try
to, anyway) in game AI got together for the 1st Annual AI Programmer's
Dinner at the CGDC. There were lots of invitees, and 16 people showed
up in all...a respectable number for the first dinner.
The following is the email I sent out to all attendees after the dinner:
Hello Everybody:
This email is going out to everybody who attended the 1st Annual AI
Programmer's Dinner. Neil, Eric, and myself all hope we can make this
an annual event at each CGDC.
All in all, we had a total of 16 people, from 4 different countries
and 14 different companies. I was fortunate enough to sit in the middle of
the table and was able to participate in VASTLY different conversations
no matter which way I turned....frankly, *I* had a blast! ;) The
attendees were:
Who Company Email
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John Bolton New World Computing jbolton@nwcomputing.com
Eric Dybsand Glacier Edge Technology edybs@ix.netcom.com
William Fisher Quicksilver Software bfisher@quicksilver.com
Nick Gollop Mythos Games (Britain) Nick@mythosgames.com
Julian Gollop Mythos Games (Britain) Julian@mythosgames.com
Mike Goshorn GRCI mgoshorn@erols.com
Jerry Isdale ISX Corporation jsdale@isx.com
jsdale@compuserve.com
Neil Kirby Lucent Technologies nak@lucent.com
Karl Meissner Activision kmeissner@activision.com
Darren Reid New Brunswick University shokwave@nbnet.nb.ca
George Shackelford Quicksilver Software gshackel@quicksilver.com
Jamie Siglar Multimedia Consultant jasiglar@tiac.net
Bryan Stout Author bstout@mindspring.com
Swen Vincke Larian Studios (Belgium) lar@larian.com
Steven Woodcock Wyrd Wyrks/Real3D Inc. NoSpam_ferretman@gameai.com
Michael Zeilfelder Blue Byte Software (Germany) zeilfelder@bluebyte.de
Seating arrangements:
< Middle of room >
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DarrenR----MichaelZ----SwenV----SteveW----JohnB----JulianG----NeilK----JerryI
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WilliamF----GeorgeS----BryanS---KarlM-----EricD----MikeG------JamieS---NickG
< Window toward deck >