Christopher Weaver

Career At Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Weaver helped redesign the campus radio and television studios, and modified Link Trainers to better simulate situational spatial awareness. Because of this experience, he created AeroTechnology Enterprises, a company specializing in analog training simulators for aviation. They decided to produce the game, resulting in the formation of Bethesda Softworks. The game was released as Gridiron! for the Atari ST and Commodore 64/128, in 1986.

Current As of 2016, Weaver has been pursuing a career in academia, in which he teaches computational media in the College of Integrative Sciences at Wesleyan University. He also teaches in the Comparative Media Studies and Engineering departments at MIT. He is a Fellow of the Futures of Entertainment Consortium; a Board Member of the Communications Technology Roadmap Group and a visiting scientist in the Microphotonics Center.

He has acted as technical advisor to various governments and organizations, including the White House, Office of Technology Policy, Congressional Committee of House Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. Weaver has been a technical advisor to numerous films including Independence Day, where writer/producer Dean Devlin used Weaver as the basis for the film character David Levinson (played by Jeff Goldblum) and on the science fiction film, Geostorm.

In 2005, Weaver was inducted into the Cosmos Club for excellence in Engineering.

In 2016, Weaver was appointed a Distinguished Research Scholar by the Smithsonian Institution and installed as the first Project Director of the newly created Video Game Pioneers Archive within the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.

Publications Weaver has been published in a number of science and technology journals and periodicals, including: the MIT Microphotonics Center, IEEE Spectrum, Techline, Edge Magazine, SCTE Journal, NCTA Bulletin, ITU Standards, Video Magazine, and Next Generation Magazine on subjects ranging from microprocessors to copyright law. He is also a co-writer/creator of the multi-volume science-fiction series The Tenth Planet published by Ballantine Books and was the technical editor and contributor for Fundamentals of Game Design.

Personal life Weaver is a volunteer air ambulance pilot for AngelFlight and holds numerous FAA licenses and type certificates. He is married to Nanci Weaver. In 1994, he was married to Dr Constance Bohon, chief of gynecology of Columbia Hospital for Women, and they had a son named Isaac.