Dave Mark

Dave is the President and Lead Designer of Intrinsic Algorithm, an independent game development studio and AI consulting company in Omaha, Nebraska. He has been programming since 1985 when he was in high school. (Much to his teacher's dismay, he wrote his first text adventure on the school's DEC PDP-1144 minicomputer.)

He is the author of the book "Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI" and is a contributor to the "AI Game Programming Wisdom" and "Game Programming Gems" book series from Charles River Media. Dave is also a founding member of the AI Game Programmers Guild and has spoken at numerous conferences including being a co-adviser for the AI Summits at the annual Game Developers Conference.

Dave continues to further his education by attending the University of Life. He has no plans to graduate any time soon.