Michael Massimilla
Michael Massimilla (born 1961) is an American software engineer, as well as a hobbyist video game developer and contract bridge player. He was one of the co-founders of DealerTrack (now a subsidiary of Cox Automotive), a provider of IT services to auto dealerships; a technology vice president for JPMorgan Chase; a co-founder of Juno Online Services, a pioneer of free internet email; a software engineer at D. E. Shaw & Co., a New York hedge fund; a founder and vice president of Masterplay Publishing, a computer game development firm; and a packet switch engineer at BBN Technologies in the 1980s, where many internet technologies were first developed.[2] He was a teaching fellow under Harry R. Lewis at Harvard University.[3]
Together with Walter Freitag and Rick Dutton, Massimilla co-founded the Society for Interactive Literature (SIL) at Harvard University in 1982.[5] The club's first public event was Rekon-1 in February 1983, at the Boskone science fiction convention. This event is considered to be the birth of Theatre-style live-action role-playing games (LARP), one of the main styles of LARP.[6]
Together with Andrew C. Greenberg, Rick Dutton, and Walter Freitag, Massimilla developed the games Star Saga One: Beyond the Boundary and Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace in 1988-1989,[7] his role being the primary programmer.[8] Both were released by Masterplay Publishing. The role-playing video games combine a computerized game arbiter with a game board and books of printed text.
Massimilla is a lifelong contract bridge player with the rank of ACBL Gold Life Master.[9] He wrote 7 articles for The Bridge World between 1994-2013, and with his partner Louis Glasthal, he appeared in its Challenge the Champs feature 4 times between 2013-2017.[10]
Massimilla is an amateur theater reviewer. He is in the top ten all-time reviewers on Show-Score, where he has published more than 700 reviews since the website was founded in 2015.[11]
Bridge accomplishments[edit]
Wins[edit]
Personal Life[edit]
Massimilla was married to Dori Cohen, also a bridge player, from 1996-2005;[14] with whom he has two children.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Nassau-Suffolk Bridge Association Islander" (PDF). 2017. p. 6.
- ↑ "DealerTrack Management Team". Retrieved 2023-02-17.
He is a founder and architect of DealerTrack's system in the USA. Prior to DealerTrack, Mike served as a technology Vice President for JP Morgan Chase; as a founder and developer of Juno Online Services, a pioneer of free internet email; as a software engineer at D E Shaw & Co., a New York hedge fund; as a founder and Vice President of Masterplay Publishing, a computer game development firm; and as a packet switch engineer at BBN Technologies, where many internet technologies were first developed.
- ↑ Lewis, Harry R. (1991), Data Structures & Their Algorithms, p. XV
- ↑ Lewis, Harry R. (October 4, 2012). "A 30th Anniversary Family Photo". Bits and Pieces. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ↑ Sternberg, Michael (2014). "STAR SAGA: ONE Beyond the Boundary: Play-by-Email (or Solo) Using the VASSAL Engine". KansasFest. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
Walter Freitag, Michael Massimilla, and Rick Dutton, founded the Harvard Society for Interactive Literature in 1982.
- ↑ Olmstead-Dean, Gordon (1998). "Theatre Style Live Roleplaying Events". LARP Writing.org. Archived from the original on 2008-06-07. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
In 1982, Walt Frietag and some friends at Harvard University "invented" what they called "interactive literature."... Frietag called his group the "Harvard Society for Interactive Literature", which was shortened to "Society for Interactive Literature" the next year.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Kritzen, William (August 1988), "The Stars... My Destiny" (PDF), Computer Gaming World, vol. 50, pp. 39–40, retrieved 2023-02-17
- ↑ "From the Dungeon to the Stars" (PDF), QuestBusters: The Adventurers' Journal, p. 2, 1988, retrieved 2023-02-17
- ↑ "Milestones", Nassau-Suffolk Bridge Association Islander, XXXVI, p. 17, 2012
- ↑ "The Bridge World Content Index by Author". Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ↑ "Show-Score Member Leaderboard - All time". Show-Score. Retrieved 2023-02-20. Massimilla's profile, 'Wish I Could See Them All', is ranked at #8 of all time.
- ↑ "Search Results: 10K Knockout Teams". 2014 to present. ACBL. Visit "NABC Winners"; select 10K Knockout Teams 2019. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
- ↑ "Glasthal wins 10K KO" (PDF). Daily Bulletin. 2019. pp. 1, 9. Retrieved 2023-02-17.
- ↑ "WebCivil Supreme - Case Detail". Dori Cohen was legally known as Doraine Massimilla at the time.
- ↑ Cohen, Dori (2006), "Making Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Less Alternative: The Need for ADR as Both a Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Requirement and a Bar Exam Topic", Family Court Review, 44 (4), p. 652, retrieved 2023-02-20 Cohen dedicates the paper to her and Massimilla's two children.
External links[edit]
- Michael Massimilla's profile at MobyGames
- International record for Michael Massimilla World Bridge Federation
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