{"id":1471,"date":"2015-01-13T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2015-01-13T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T12:15:21","slug":"michael-cook-named-by-forbes-in-their-top-30-under-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1471","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cook, named by Forbes in their Top 30 under 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0x600.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0x600.png\" alt=\"0x600\" width=\"601\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0x600.png 601w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0x600-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0x600-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk\/?id=michaelcook\"><b>Michael Cook<\/b><\/a>,<b> <\/b>Researcher from the\u00a0Department of Computing<b>\u00a0<\/b>was named by <b>Forbes <\/b>in their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/30under30\/#\/games\"><span class=\"s1\">Top\u00a030 under 30<\/span><\/a><\/strong> \u00a0list.\u00a0Mike is currently \u201cmaking a creative AI called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesbyangelina.org\/\"><strong>ANGELINA<\/strong><\/a> that can design its own original games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Cook <\/strong>is a PhD student at Imperial College in London, where he also studied for an MEng Computing. He\u2019s also a Research Associate at <a href=\"http:\/\/ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk\/\"><strong>Goldsmiths College\u2019s Computational Creativity Group.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For his\u00a0PhD project he asks questions like: Can we evolve entire games from nothing? Can we start with literally nothing at all, except a few basic ideas about what a game contains, and ask a computer to design levels, populate them with characters, and wrap it all up in a ruleset that is both challenging and fun?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Games by ANGELINA:<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> http:\/\/www.gamesbyangelina.org\/<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Forbes in their Top 30 under 30 :<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/pictures\/mlg45ehell\/michael-cook-27\/<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk\/\">Goldsmiths College\u2019s Computational Creativity Group<\/a>:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk\/\">http:\/\/ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk\/<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Cook, Researcher from the\u00a0Department of Computing\u00a0was named by Forbes in their Top\u00a030 under 30 \u00a0list.\u00a0Mike is currently \u201cmaking a creative AI called ANGELINA that can design its own original games. Michael Cook is a PhD student at Imperial College in London, where he also studied for an MEng Computing. He\u2019s also a Research Associate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Cook, named by Forbes in their Top 30 under 30<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[118,110,107],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}