Michael Thome

Michael Thome has been a computer scientist with BBN Technologies for over 25 years, and currently specializes in scalable computing technologies and voice analytics. Michael has degrees in cognitive science from the University of Rochester and Boston University, with specialties in computational models of human neurological systems. His interest in gaming started while he was in high school, building cellular automata systems to create terrains for the PSL Empire computer game, writing video games, MUD content, and collaborating on one of the very first open source computer games, LSRHS Hack (the antecedent to the now-venerable NetHack).