John Carmack
Sign in to saveAmerican computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1970-08-21
- Works
- 2
Top works
- A Bright Ray Of Hope
- Tolerance
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Shawnee Mission, Kansas, USA
Known for
- FPS: First Person Shooter — Self2023
- First Person Shooter — self2023
- High Score — Self2020
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 175
- Total plays
- 902
John D. Carmack II (born August 20, 1970) is an American game programmer, and the co-founder of id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the id computer games Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, their sequels and the Commander Keen series of games. Though Carmack is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics, he is also a rocketry enthusiast and the founder and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Carmack">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 199,603x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,227x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,013x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,779x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1970-08-21 ) August 21, 1970 (age 55) , Shawnee Mission, Kansas , U.S.
- Occupations
- Computer programmer video game developer engineer
- Years active
- 1989–present
- Employers
- Keen Technologies (2023–present) Oculus VR (2013–2022)
- Known for
- Co-founding id Software , Commander Keen , Wolfenstein 3D , Doom , Quake
- Title
- Consulting CTO, Oculus VR , Founder, Armadillo Aerospace
- Political party
- Libertarian
- Spouse
- Katherine Anna Kang ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2000 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2021 )
- Partner
- Trista DeLeon (2022–present)
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 21 August 1970
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Spouse
- Katherine Anna Kang
- Occupation
- television actor
- Position held
- chief technology officer
- Employer
- Armadillo Aerospace
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Presbyterianism
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John D. Carmack II (born August 21, 1970) is an American computer programmer and video game developer. He co-founded the video game company id Software and was the lead programmer of its 1990s games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and their sequels. Carmack made innovations in 3D computer graphics, such as his Carmack's Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes.
In 2013, he resigned from id Software to work full-time at Oculus VR as their CTO. In 2019, he reduced his role to Consulting CTO so he could allocate more time toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). In 2022, he left Oculus to work on his AGI startup, Keen Technologies.
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