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Sid Meier
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Canadian-American game programmer and designer
OverviewAI-generated
Sid Meier is a Canadian video game producer, engineer, computer scientist, and game designer. Born in Sarnia in 1954, he is a citizen of Canada and a Lutheran. He studied at the University of Michigan and began his professional work period in 1982. His fields of work include game design and entrepreneurship, and he has been employed by 2K.
Meier’s notable works include *Sid Meier's Railroads!*, *Sid Meier's Memoir!*, *Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri*, and *Sid Meier's civilization III*. He speaks English. A quote attributed to him states, "A game is a series of interesting choices."
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Sid Meier's Railroads!
- Sid Meier's Memoir!
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
- Sid Meier's civilization III
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 159
- Total plays
- 4,904
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sid+Meier">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations
· 1958 · cited 70,801x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,210x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,794x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,658x
- Genome sequence-based species delimitation with confidence intervals and improved distance functions
· 2013 · cited 6,312x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “A game is a series of interesting choices.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1954-02-24 ) February 24, 1954 (age 72) , Sarnia , Ontario , Canada
- Education
- University of Michigan ( BA )
- Occupations
- Businessman, computer programmer
- Years active
- 1981–present
- Employer
- 2K Games
- Known for
- MicroProse , Firaxis Games , Civilization series
- Spouse
- Susan Meier
- Children
- Ryan Meier
- Awards
- AIAS Hall of Fame Award (1999)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Sidney K. Meier (/ˈmaɪər/ MIRE; born February 24, 1954) is an American businessman and computer programmer. A programmer, designer, and producer of many strategy and simulation video games, including the Civilization series, Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 with Bill Stealey and is the Director of Creative Development of Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996. For his contributions to the video game industry, Meier was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sid Meier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.