Guy Davidson

Guy Davidson has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is the emeritus Head of Engineering Practice at Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2, and continues to provide engineering leadership elsewhere. He is a contributor to the C++ standardisation process, particularly through SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especially for Games, Financial/Banking, and Simulations, as well as LEWG, the Library Evolution Working Group. He is trying to get a matrix class and a circular buffer class into the standard. He speaks at schools, colleges and universities about programming and likes to help good programmers become better programmers.

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