Jeremy Elson

Jeremy Elson (born 1974) is a computer researcher specializing in wireless Sensor Networks. He is also the creator of the popular CircleMUD. Elson received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2003. He previously worked at Microsoft Research, in the Distributed Systems and Security group within Systems and Networking Research. Recent projects include MapCruncher and ASIRRA. In 2015, he started his career at Google. Jeremy is also known for his work on calculating whether a powerball ticket can ever be profitable.

In his free time, Jeremy likes to fly planes and work on electronic projects at his home lab.

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MUDs

Major branches	AberMUD DikuMUD LPMud MU*

Minor branches, codebases	CD CircleMUD CoffeeMUD ColdMUD CoolMUD Copper DGD EnvyMUD FluffOS GodWars Merc Mordor MudOS MUSH NUTS ROM Sequent SMAUG Talker TinyMUD TinyMUCK BBS MUDs – Fazuul Kyrandia MajorMUD Quest for Magic Scepter of Goth

Programming languages	ColdC LPC MPI MOO MUDDL Mudlle MUF SWLPC

Mudlibs	Ain Soph Mudlib CDlib Discworld Mudlib Lima Mudlib LPUniversity Mudlib MorgenGrauen Mudlib Nightmare Mudlib TMI Mudlib

Protocols	InterMUD MCCP MXP

Clients	Comparison of MUD clients MUSHclient TinTin++ TinyFugue zMUD

Concepts, terminology	Alternate character Avatar Avatar customization Bartle Test Buff Camping Computer game bot Consider Cybersex God Gold farming Gold sink Griefer Grinding Hack and slash Immortal Implementer Kill stealing Lag Looting Mob / Monster MUD client Mudlib Mudflation Nerf Online creation Online wedding Persistent world Player character Player versus environment Player versus player / Playerkilling Powerleveling Quest Remort Rent Spam Spawning spod Social verbs Syntax guessing Tank Twinking Virtual good Wizard Zone / Area

History	List of MUDs MUD trees "A Rape in Cyberspace" "A Story About a Tree"

Publications	Designing Virtual Worlds Imaginary Realities Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet Terra Nova A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Companies, organizations	Areae Iron Realms Entertainment Jagex Lysator Kesmai The Mud Connector Mythic Entertainment Plaintext Players Simutronics Skotos

People	Alan Cox Aleksi Asikainen Amy S. Bruckman Andrew Gower Ben Laurie Brad McQuaid Brian Green Bruce Woodcock Cat Rambo Chip Morningstar Christopher Howard Wolf Dr. Cat Edward Castronova Elonka Dunin Espen J. Aarseth Greg Stein J. Todd Coleman James Aspnes Jason Scott Sadofsky Jeremy Elson John Viega Joi Ito Judy Malloy Julian Dibbell Kelton Flinn Lars Pensjö Lennart Augustsson Lisbeth Klastrup Mark Jacobs Matt Mihaly Michael Lawrie Michael Seifert Mizuko Ito Nick Yee Noah Wardrip-Fruin Paul Barnett Pavel Curtis Randy Farmer Rich Salz Rich Skrenta Richard Bartle Roy Trubshaw Sherry Turkle Stephanie Shaver Steve Yegge T. L. Taylor Wes Platt

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