John F. Kutcher

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John F. Kutcher (born November 21, 1965 ) is an American programmer who became known in the early 1980s for the games Rescue Squad and Space Taxi , which were released for the Commodore 64 .

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Kutcher learned his first programming skills autodidactically in 1980 while in high school on a TRS-80 . He wrote imitations of popular games. When he heard that the Commodore 64 was going to be the next big game home computer , he bought one with money borrowed from his grandfather and started writing Rescue Squad. When he was almost done, he looked up a publisher in the phone book and found a listing for Muse Software , a company near him, and after a phone call and a presentation of the game, he got a contract. The game was released two months later in 1983, shortly after Kutcher graduated from high school. It received the “Best Game of the Year” award from a computer game magazine .

He started working at Space Taxi that fall after studying computer science at Johns Hopkins University . It was also published by Muse Software in January 1984 and received some very good reviews in various computer magazines, as well as the "Consumer Electronics Software Showcase Award" and is now one of the classics of computer games . He financed his studies with the income from both games. In 1985 he changed the editor and worked briefly for MicroProse on the Commodore translation of Solo Flight . This was his last work on a computer game.

Kutcher received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1992 and has since worked v. a. to medical databases .

As early as 1985 he founded the company DICORP, Inc., which merged with ESO (the leading data and software company for rescue services, fire departments and hospitals) in December 2019.

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  1. ↑ From a screen hidden in the instructions for Space Taxi with information about Kutcher's person
  2. ^ John F. Kutcher: Coordinated motion planning of planar linkages . 1992, OCLC 27276577 .
  3. ↑ News and Events. In: dicorp.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ ESO Acquires Digital Innovation, Partners with DICORP To Drive Trauma Registry Innovation. In: eso.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020 (American English).
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SURNAME Kutcher, John F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist and game developer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1965