Andrew Scott Gavin, born June 11, 1970, is an American video game programmer, entrepreneur and novelist. In 1986 he co-founded the video game company Naughty Dog with his childhood friend Jason Rubin, and the studio went on to release the Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter games. Before founding Naughty Dog he worked in the LISP programming language at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and as a student he developed a number of custom programming languages that were later used for the graphics, controls, sounds and artificial intelligence of Naughty Dog games. While at Naughty Dog he developed two LISP dialects for use in game development, Game Oriented Object Lisp (GOOL) and its successor Game Oriented Assembly Lisp (GOAL). He later co-founded the Internet startup Flektor and published the novels The Darkening Dream (2011) and Untimed (2012).
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is an American video game programmer, entrepreneur, and novelist
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Andrew Scott Gavin (born June 11, 1970)
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Gavin developed two LISP dialects for use in game development, Game Oriented Object Lisp (GOOL) and its successor Game Oriented Assembly Lisp (GOAL).
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is an American video game programmer, entrepreneur, and novelist
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Gavin developed two LISP dialects for use in game development
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developed a number of custom programming languages that were later used for the graphics, controls, sounds, and artificial intelligence in Naughty Dog video games
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He studied for a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Invented: Game Oriented Object Lisp, Naughty Dog career
While at Naughty Dog, Gavin developed two LISP dialects for use in game development, Game Oriented Object Lisp (GOOL) and its successor Game Oriented Assembly Lisp (GOAL).
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