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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.


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].
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.
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].

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