Richard Garriott
Sign in to saveBritish video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961-07-04
- 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
Tags
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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 61,419x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 57,940x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,605x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,001x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
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Key dates
- Born
- 4 July 1961
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Father
- Owen K. Garriott
- Official website
- www.richardgarriott.com
- Image
- Richard garriott july 2008.jpg
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- spaceflight
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1961 births20th-century American engineers20th-century British engineers21st-century American engineers21st-century British engineersAcademy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame inducteesAmateur radio peopleAmerican astronautsAmerican businesspeople in the video game industryAmerican technology company foundersAmerican video game designers