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Chris Cole is President of Ur Studios, Inc.  He was introduced to the Arpanet as a student at Harvard in the 1970’s. As a graduate student at Caltech, he pioneered interactive remote computing by using the Macsyma program at MIT over the Arpanet. Later he co-wrote with Stephen Wolfram the first commercially available symbolic math package, [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800206.806365&coll=&dl=ACM&type=series&idx=800206&part=Proceedings&WantType=Proceedings&title=Symposium%20on%20Symbolic%20and%20Algebraic%20Manipulation&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 SMP], which was a precursor to Mathematica.
== Returning to Citizendium: an update on the project and how to get involved ==


Cole co-founded his first software company, Peregrine Systems, Inc. (PRGN), in 1981 and has been a founder of several companies since then. In the late 1980s, Cole became interested in the Internet as a medium for virtual communities and several of these companies have explored this area. Among these, Worlds, Inc. (WDDD) marketed one of the first commercially available multi-user 3D environments, and its offshoot Active Worlds, Inc. (AWLD) is one of the largest online paid subscriber communities.  He also founded the open source project Gel and co-founded with Alan Kay the open source project [http://www.opencroquet.org OpenCroquet].
Hello - some time ago you became part of the Citizendium project, but we haven't seen you around for a while. Perhaps you'd like to update your [[User:Chris Cole|public biography]] or check on the progress of [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Chris_Cole any pages you've edited so far].


Ur Studios, Inc. is a loosely bound collection of companies exploring civilization on the Internet. Included are Jet City Studios, Inc. of Seattle, a leader in the area of kids entertainment and education over the Internet; Progress City, Inc of Santa Monica, a creator of systems of experience that operate in both the real and virtual worlds; Headlamp, Inc. of San Diego, an integrator of transactional information into one coherent view of the customer; and Ask Earth, Inc., an online service that connects people looking for information with people who have that information.
Citizendium now has over [[:Category:CZ Live|16,000 articles]], with more than [[:Category:Approved Articles|150 approved]] by specialist [[CZ:The Editor Role|Editors]] such as yourself, but our contributor numbers require a boost. We have an initiative called '[[CZ:Eduzendium|Eduzendium]]' that brings in students enrolled on university courses to write articles for credit, but we still need more Editors across the community to write, discuss and approve material. There are some [[:Category:Computers_Developed_Articles|developed Computers articles]] that could be improved and approved, and some [[CZ:Core Articles/Applied Arts and Sciences|high-priority Applied Sciences articles]] that we don't have yet. You can also create new articles via [[CZ:Start_Article|this guide]], and contribute to some Computers pages that have been [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked&target=Category%3AComputers_tag recently edited] - or to [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges any others] on Citizendium, since you're a general [[CZ:The Author Role|Author]] as well as a specialist Editor. You may like to contribute to discussions in the [http://forum.citizendium.org forums], and might consider running for an elected position on the [[CZ:Management Council|Management]] and [http://ec.citizendium.org Editorial] Councils that oversee the project.


Cole also wrote the software for the online version of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, worked with the Advanced Technology Group of Encyclopedia Britannica in implementing Britannica Online, helped Disney go online, and edits the archive for the Usenet newsgroup [http://www.rec-puzzles.org rec.puzzles]. In 1999 Sterling published his book [http://www.amazon.com/Wordplay-Curious-Dictionary-Language-Oddities/dp/0806917970/sr=1-24/qid=1160661344/ref=sr_1_24/104-2101388-8399948?ie=UTF8&s=books Wordplay, A Curious Dictionary of Language Oddities].
If you have any questions, let me know via my [[User talk:John Stephenson|Talk page]] or by leaving a message below this one. Thank you for signing up and reading this update; I hope that you will [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Special:MyTalk look in] on our community soon. [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]] 12:38, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

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Returning to Citizendium: an update on the project and how to get involved

Hello - some time ago you became part of the Citizendium project, but we haven't seen you around for a while. Perhaps you'd like to update your public biography or check on the progress of any pages you've edited so far.

Citizendium now has over 16,000 articles, with more than 150 approved by specialist Editors such as yourself, but our contributor numbers require a boost. We have an initiative called 'Eduzendium' that brings in students enrolled on university courses to write articles for credit, but we still need more Editors across the community to write, discuss and approve material. There are some developed Computers articles that could be improved and approved, and some high-priority Applied Sciences articles that we don't have yet. You can also create new articles via this guide, and contribute to some Computers pages that have been recently edited - or to any others on Citizendium, since you're a general Author as well as a specialist Editor. You may like to contribute to discussions in the forums, and might consider running for an elected position on the Management and Editorial Councils that oversee the project.

If you have any questions, let me know via my Talk page or by leaving a message below this one. Thank you for signing up and reading this update; I hope that you will look in on our community soon. John Stephenson 12:38, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

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