Christopher Weaver

Christopher Weaver
Alma mater	Wesleyan University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation	software and technology innovator, entrepreneur
Known for	founder of Bethesda Softworks and ZeniMax Media

Christopher S. Weaver is an American entrepreneur, software developer, scientist, author, and educator. He is known for founding of Bethesda Softworks, where he was one of the creators and Executive Producer of the original The Elder Scrolls role-playing series.

Weaver and Bethesda are credited with developing of the first real-time physics engine for sports simulation, used in Bethesda's Gridiron! videogame. Weaver also developed game screen captioning for the deaf and made it available as open source software.

Weaver was the CEO of Bethesda Softworks from 1986 to 1999. In 1999 Weaver co-founded ZeniMax Media to expand the company's development of multimedia platform products beyond videogames. He was the initial CTO of ZeniMax. In 2002 he ended his operational role there after a dispute, but remained a major shareholder.

Weaver speaks and teaches about interactive media and game development. He was interviewed in the 2012 book Gamers at Work, and was the subject of a Mashable That Was Me episode about changing the videogame industry. As of 2016 he is a visiting researcher at MIT and a professor of computational media at Wesleyan University.

During high school, Weaver worked at a microbiology laboratory and entered the New York Science Fair, winning first prize. He went on to win numerous other science awards on the national level.

After returning from Japan on a student exchange program, he got a dual degree (CAS) from Wesleyan University with specialty in Japanese and Physics. He later earned graduate and post-graduate degrees in Computer Science and Japanese Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan, and a graduate degree in Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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