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Veda Hlubinka-Cook

American programmer (1964-)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7343081 ↗
Source-derived summary

Veda Hlubinka-Cook (born Robert Cook, on December 26, 1964) is an American video game designer, software developer, and co-founder of Metaweb. The company was acquired by Google in 2010.

Career

Cook was a video game programmer at Broderbund in the 1980s. She designed and wrote the games Gumball and D/Generation; was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia; and was technical director for The Last Express.

Personal life

She came out as transgender in 2017.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Veda Hlubinka-Cook” is american programmer (1964-). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Veda, Hlubinka-Cook and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 2010, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-12-26. For this dossier, Veda, Hlubinka-Cook and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american programmer (1964-)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7343081. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1964, 2010 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Veda Hlubinka-Cook” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.