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John D. Carmack II (born August 21, 1970) is an American computer programmer and video game developer. He co-founded the video game company id Software and was the lead programmer of its 1990s games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and their sequels. Carmack made innovations in 3D computer graphics, such as his Carmack's Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes. In 2013, he resigned from id Software to work full-time at Oculus VR as their CTO. In 2019, he reduced his role to Consulting
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John Carmack Says Anti AI Datacenter Efforts Need To Be Countered So That The Industry Doesn’t End Up Like Nuclear Power
John Carmack apologizes after Sandy Petersen says 'Quake ruined id Software,' and for once John Romero doesn't tell Sandy he's wrong
An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena 'was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game'
'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI
John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM - Tom's Hardware
John Carmack, the video game legend who built Doom, treated Ferrari like a ‘final boss’ and beat it until he was blacklisted for modifying their sacred engines. The Quake creator then abandoned the Italian brand for a Tesla Model S, calling it the best car he ev
id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs
Exclusive: John Carmack Predicts AI Won’t Change the World as Much as People Think
OG Doom legend John Carmack says his Nvidia DGX Spark box has thermal throttling issues, raising doubts over the viability of Nvidia's AI APU for laptop PCs
John Carmack defends AI amid backlash over Microsoft’s generative Quake II demo