Published “Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019” in Journal of the American College of Cardiology — cited 10,312 times.
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Sid Meier
Sidney K. Meier 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 vide…
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business · American game programmer and designer (born 1954) · video game producer · engineer · video game designer · computer scientist · game designer · entrepreneur · programmer · also Sid Meier, Sidney K. "Sid" Meier, Meier
Born 24 February 1954 · Q92616
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2020· 2 entries
Published “The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues” in Science — cited 5,388 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Health effects of dietary risks in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 4,633 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Published “Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018” in Cell Death & Differentiation — cited 5,879 times.
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Published “The Immune Landscape of Cancer” in Immunity — cited 4,795 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Was awarded the Life Achievement by the Golden Joystick Awards
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2016· 2 entries
That Meier would sometimes arrive at the office and announce he had a new game prototype for the company to try out and see if it could be developed further
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Published “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)” in Autophagy — cited 4,420 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “The Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS)” in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging — cited 5,743 times.
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2012· 2 entries
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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2009· 2 entries
Was ranked second in IGN's list of "Top Game Creators of All Time", and was called "the ideal role model for any aspiring game designer"
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Came fifth in a Develop survey that asked some 9,000 game makers about their "ultimate development hero"
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Game Developers Choice Award - Lifetime Achievement (2008).
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Meier received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 Game Developer's Conference
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2005· 1 entry
Said, "We've been nonstop busy making other games over the past several years, so the dinosaur game remains on the shelf
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1999· 1 entry
Became the second person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame
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1997· 1 entry
Computer Gaming World ranked him as number one on the list of the "Most Influential People of All Time in Computer Gaming", for game design
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1996· 3 entries
And consolidated much of their operations
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GameSpot put Meier at the top of their listing of the "Most Influential People in Computer Gaming of All Time", calling him "our Hitchcock, our Spielberg, our Ellington"
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Was granted a patent for a "System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis" used in C
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1995· 1 entry
Published “THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES” in Geostandards Newsletter — cited 5,632 times.
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1994· 1 entry
That "Sid Meier has stated on numerous occasions that he emphasizes the 'fun parts' of a simulation and throws out the rest"
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1993· 1 entry
Under Spectrum's name, with Spectrum as the operating company
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1987· 1 entry
The company released Sid Meier's Pirates
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1984· 1 entry
Stealey began marketing Meier himself, hoping to attract other developers by promoting him as an auteur; by 1986 MicroProse was using Meier's name and face in advertisements for its games
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1982· 1 entry
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
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1958· 1 entry
Published “Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations” in Journal of the American Statistical Association — cited 70,857 times.
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-02-24.
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