Dona Bailey
Dona Bailey (* 1955 in Little Rock , Arkansas ) is an American computer scientist , computer game designer and university professor.
life and work
Bailey graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a Master of Education degree. She was hired as a programmer by General Motors and trained in assembly language programming. She worked there for two years on displays and microprocessor-based cruise control systems. From 1980 to 1982 she worked at Atari as the only programmer in the arcade department. Here she developed the computer game Centipede as a software engineer with Ed Logg in 1981 , in which a segmented insect fell down the screen while the player shot at it. Like other programmers at the time, she had to find remedies for the limited memory and CPU cycle times. She then worked at Videa, later renamed Sente Technologies , which three former Atari employees had founded. Until her retirement, she taught as a professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Arkansas. In 2007 she was the keynote speaker at the Women in Games International Conference.
Web links
- Short biography
- Interview with Dona Bailey
- Dona Bailey in Video Games Volume 1 Number 6, page 54
- Women in Games Austin Conference 2007
- Woman behind 'Centipede' recalls game icon's birth
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bailey, Dona |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist, computer game designer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Little Rock , Arkansas |