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Richard Garriott
Sign in to saveAlso known as Richard Garriott de Cayeux, Richard Allen Garriott, Lord British, General British, Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux
British video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Eye of Scales
- Explore/Create
- The Sword of Midras: A Shroud of the Avatar Novel (Blade of the Avatar Book 1)
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Film & TV
Acting · Cambridge, England, UK
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (né Garriott) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut. Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer and programmer, and is now involved in a number of aspects of computer-game development. On October 12, 2008, Garriott flew aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 mission to the International…
Known for
- High Score — Self2020
- Confessions from Space: Apollo — Self2019
- 8 Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars — Himself2016
- Dungeons & Dragons: A Documentary — Self2014
- Apogee of Fear — The Spaceflight Participant2012
- Man On a Mission: Richard Garriott's Road to the Stars — himself2010
- Scam School — Himself2008
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18
- Total plays
- 101
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Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961) is a British-American video game developer and entrepreneur. He is also known as his alter egos Lord British in Ultima and General British in Tabula Rasa. A figure in the video game industry, Garriott was originally a game designer and programmer and now engages in various aspects of computer game development and business. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Garriott">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,349x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,236x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,650x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,252x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
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Quotes
- “Stealing is OK as long as it's done well.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Allen Garriott , ( 1961-07-04 ) 4 July 1961 (age 64) , Cambridge , England
- Citizenship
- American , British
- Occupation
- Video game developer
- Known for
- Ultima series Origin Systems Private astronaut
- Spouse
- Laetitia Pichot de Cayeux ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2011 )
- Parents
- Owen K. Garriott Helen Garriott
- Relatives
- Robert Garriott (brother)
- Awards
- AIAS Hall of Fame Award (2006)
- Time in space
- 11d 20h 35m
- Missions
- Soyuz TMA-13 / TMA-12
via Wikipedia infobox
~18 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Richard Allen Garriott de Cayeux (né Garriott; born 4 July 1961) is a British-born American video game developer, entrepreneur and private astronaut.
Garriott, who is the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, was originally a game designer and programmer, and is now involved in a number of aspects of computer-game development. On October 12, 2008, Garriott flew aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 mission to the International Space Station as a private astronaut, returning 12 days later aboard Soyuz TMA-12. He became the second space traveler, and first from the United States, to have a parent who was also a space traveler. During his ISS flight, he filmed a science fiction movie Apogee of Fear.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Garriott” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.