Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male Also Known As Founder of Bethesda Softworks|Educator at MIT
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Christopher Weaver is a software developer, game programmer, entrepreneur, the founder of Bethesda Softworks, and the co-founder of ZeniMax Media. He led the development of the first physics engine for real-time sports simulation and helped design John Madden Football. With more than 30 years of experience in computer games and telecommunications
engineering, Weaver is 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 also a Board Member of the Communications Technology Roadmap Group.
Christopher Weaver is the Founder of Bethesda Softworks, a software entertainment company that has won every major national and international industry award, including over two hundred “Best Game of the Year” awards, the Codie, IGDA and ADC awards, two Clios and the Golden Cyber Lion at Cannes. Bethesda is credited with the creation of physics-based sports simulation and built the original John Madden Football, which has become the top-selling sports game of all time.
Weaver received an SM in Engineering from MIT and was the initial Daltry Scholar at Wesleyan University, where he earned dual Masters Degrees (Japanese and Computer Science) and a dual CAS (doctoral) degree in Japanese and Physics. An author and advisor to government and industry, he holds patents in interactive media, system security and broadband communications. A former member of the Architecture Machine Group and Fellow of the MIT Communications and Policy Program, Weaver was a also a Fellow of the Robotics Simulation Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon. He is a Board Member of The MIT Communications Technology Roadmap group. In 2005, he was inducted into the Cosmos Club.
Christopher holds a BA from Hobart College, a Master in Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a Certificate of Advanced Science from Wesleyan University and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (computer science) from Wesleyan University.
