Sean Eddy learned to write computer programs by playing Empire, a game he describes as a "fanatically detailed, multiplayer world simulation." As leaders of a country called Mirkwood, Eddy and his buddy Tom Jones dominated the Empire world in the late 1980s and early 1990s, winning battle after battle, including the first world tournament and the longest-running game in Empire history, which lasted nearly eight months.
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Sean Eddy used his decades' experience playing video games to design software that found an entire new class of genes. And he's still looking.
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