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Inspiring Women Interview: Corrinne Yu (Lead Halo engine programmer)

by iman on 6/17/09, 12:31 AM with 32 comments

• by Radix on 6/17/09, 1:49 AM

  Diversity as a first class citizen is not merely about race or gender or creed. It is diversity of creativity and intellect and technological innovation. If we use only the same people and the same kind of people to create games , our technology and our games will stagnate.

  I really like this message. I wish people would stop saying 'we need more women in blah,' then instead say something like this. We really don't need more of anyone just to make the demographics look nice. Lack of a group in a field is a problem because we might be missing out on more like her, and I hate to think that.

• by kqr2 on 6/17/09, 1:36 AM

  Another inspiring woman programmer is Niniane formerly from Google and Microsoft.

  http://niniane.org/

  http://www.ofb.net/~niniane/resume.html

  Brief snippets from her resume:

    Google:
  
     * Founder, Lively by Google
  
      o Created vision, got project chartered.
  
      o Built and led a team through technical design and implementation. 
  
      o Co-inventor on 5 pending patents. 
  
     * Tech lead, Gmail Ads
  
    Microsoft:
  
     * Software Design Engineer Lead, Microsoft Flight Simulator
  

  Also featured in Google's recruiting campaign:

  http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/brilliant-niniane-w...

  However, she left Google recently after 5 years:

  http://niniane.blogspot.com/2009/02/life-updates.html

• by snprbob86 on 6/17/09, 2:23 AM

  It should be pointed out that this is "Microsoft's Halo Team" which is not Bungie. Bungie is no longer a part of the company, but Microsoft still owns the IP rights to Halo.

  Bungie is developing "Halo: ODST", to be released this year, as well "Halo: REACH" which is only at the teaser phase. Microsoft is developing their own game engine for their own Halo games.

• by DannoHung on 6/17/09, 11:19 AM

  Here's her Moby Games page: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,68...

  It seems like she's recently transferred from Gearbox to Microsoft, since she references both Borderlands and Aliens: Colonial Marines.

  I guess she's working on Halo: Reach

• by contergan on 6/18/09, 2:10 AM

  I'd hit it!