Pavel Curtis is an American software architect at

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who is best known for having founded and managed ''

LambdaMOO ''LambdaMOO'' is an online community of the variety called a MOO. It is the oldest MOO today. ''LambdaMOO'' was founded in 1990 by Pavel Curtis at Xerox PARC. Now hosted in the state of Washington, it is operated and administered entirely on ...

'', an online community. In the mid- to late 1980s Curtis developed and taught parts of the computer science course at the

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summer program. Curtis was a member of the research staff at

Xerox PARC PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, the company was originally a division of Xero ...

from 1983 to 1996, where he worked in the areas of programming language design and implementation, programming environments, and online collaboration systems. He developed

from work initiated by Stephen White from 1990, during this period, enhancing the implementation of the MOO programming language. Curtis left Xerox in 1997 to become a principal architect and co-founder of PlaceWare,"The PlaceWare Platform: Web-based Collaborative Apps Made Simple"
/ref> a web-conferencing company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2003. Outside work Curtis is now the sole proprietor of Pavel's Puzzles, a website selling

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, mostly designed by him. The website also features a column, "Adalogical Ænigmas", which features a large Nikoli-style

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every month.

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External links

Pavel's Puzzles
Living people MUD developers Year of birth missing (living people) People from Seattle Scientists at PARC (company) {{MUD-stub