David Whatley
President & CEO, Simutronics Corporation

David Whatley's passion for online gaming led him to found Simutronics in 1987. David — chief designer of most of the company's games — has won numerous awards, including Computer Gaming World's first ever "Online Game of the Year" award for CyberStrike, and awards such as "Best of Show" and "Most Original" for the game Hero's Journey at E3, as well as "Best Development Tool" for HeroEngine. David is the mastermind behind Simutronics' technology and game designs and has built a team of talented people who are taking Simutronics to new heights.

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David Whatley has been chief designer on most of the Simutronics products, including GemStone ][, GemStone III, DragonRealms, CyberStrike, CyberStrike 2, Hero's Journey, and the middleware product HeroEngine.  He is also the author of the chapter Towards Photorealism in Virtual Botany in the book GPU Gems 2: Programming Techniques for High-Performance Graphics and General-Purpose Computation.

Lecturer: The Massively Collaborative Development Paradigm Shift, Wednesday, 9:00 AM, Salon B