Kent Quirk's home page

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I'm a computer game developer and designer. I am the Chief Technical Officer (woohoo!) of CogniToy, a company I started with my wife, Kim. It's a small but growing computer game developer in Acton, Massachusetts. We've been working for a year and a half on a VERY cool game called MindRover. Our web site will tell you about it in a far better way than I can here, so go there, and have some fun!

I'm an American. From August 1995 until August 1996, I was living on the Cote d'Azur, in southern France, often known as the French Riviera. My wife Kim was transferred there by her company, and our kids and I tagged along for the ride.

I kept a diary of our experiences, which I updated every weekend. It got such good reviews that with help from some family members I'm now turning it into a privately-published book, which should be completed this year. Send me email if you want to know more.

I'm the lead programmer and software architect at CogniToy, as well as the lead game designer. You can learn a lot more about my attitudes towards programming by reading the CogniToy home page. Look for the section labeled "Countdown to MindRover".

I am a published author of magazine articles and books. My most recent work is The Lotus Notes Idea Book, by Jeff Kovel, Kent Quirk (that's me), and Jay Gabin. It was published in December 1995 by Addison-Wesley. They've put the cover text on their web site.

To let you see what the book is like inside, I've put up a sample chapter. Please check it out...and then buy the book so you can read the rest!

I like to consider myself a specialist in the way people interact with computers. There's two important words there -- people, and computers. I try to stay between them.

I'm too much of a techie to ever leave the computer part behind; I very much like computers. However, I especially like to make computers be a tool for helping people to interact with each other. That's why I like things like Lotus Notes, which I think is a wonderful tool for allowing people to collaborate in an effective way, and the Web (you're soaking in it!), and experimenting with ways of making web documents more and more interesting. I hope you like it. I also do user interface design, especially of educational software, which led directly to my founding of CogniToy.

Something more closely resembling a resume lies here -- but it's now badly out of date.

I am a husband, a father (two boys, in sixth grade and thirgrade), a juggler, a soccer player, a computer gamer, an occasional musician, and an avid reader.

I also spend too much time on the computer. Can you tell?

For more, click here.

My older son, Lincoln, has built his own home page.
He did it himself, and he updates it regularly.

Here's a few photos I took and liked.

There are only two industries that 
refer to their customers as "users".

          - Edward Tufte 

It is well to remember that the entire universe, 
with one trifling exception, 
is composed of others.

          - John Andrew Holmes 

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