[game_preservation] Gerald A Lawson Dies

[Devin Monnens]

http://wiki.igda.org/Memorials/Gerald_A._Lawson

<http://wiki.igda.org/Memorials/Gerald_A._Lawson>Basic memorial is up on the
Wiki.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:


> http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/04/jerry-lawson-dies/

>

> <http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/04/jerry-lawson-dies/>Wired has

> another excellent article by Chris Kohler. I also contacted Joseph Saulter,

> head of the IGDA Diversity SIG via Facebook (I am surprised at how...empty a

> lot of the SIG websites are. Does this have to do with the move?). There are

> some fantastic links in this article including video interviews and a thread

> on Digital Press with some anecdotes and information on a keynote he gave in

> 2004.

>

>

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> I failed to read this far into the New York Times this morning, but this

>> afternoon I discovered that Gerald A Lawson, the creator of the Channel F

>> and Demolition Derby, died on April 9. It's funny because I *just* read

>> about him in *Replay* (reading through it now) and he also appeared at

>> GDC though none of us seems to have known about this! The article also

>> mentions that Lawson received an award from the IGDA (I think this was at

>> the IGDA Diversity Ceremony across the street...). Being both a pioneer in

>> game design and electronics engineering through the invention of

>> interchangeable game cartridges, Lawson was also black - a rarity in the

>> field both then and now (IGDA Diversity reports only 2% of the industry is

>> black). Lawson was 70, and I hope he remains an inspiration to us all.

>>

>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/technology/personaltech/14lawson.html

>>

>> http://praiseindy.com/national/wtlcam/african-american-gaming-pioneer-gerald-a-lawson-dies/

>>

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>> http://www.youtube.com/user/IGDAGameDiversity?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/-b1gnCMeiJI -

>> Fantastic information on Mr. Lawson from GDC via IGDA Diversity SIG

>>

>> By the way, was anyone here aware Mr. Lawson was at GDC?

>>

>> --

>> Devin Monnens

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>>

>> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

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> --

> Devin Monnens

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> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

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