Gabriel Wilensky
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| Born | April 23, 1964 |
| Occupation | Author, Software Developer |
| Nationality | USA |
| Notable works | Six Million Crucifixions |
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Gabriel Wilensky (born April 23, 1964) is an American author, software developer and entrepreneur. He was born in Uruguay, where his Eastern-European grandparents had emigrated to before the Second World War. He is the author of the book Six Million Crucifixions (2010), which traces the history of antisemitism in Christianity and the role it played in the Holocaust.
Wilensky co-founded the software company Gryphon Software in the early 1990s. The company quickly became internationally known for the software product Morph, which introduced the computer graphics effect of morphing to widespread public use. Gryphon Software then developed a pioneering new line of edutainment products, the Activity Centers. Gryphon developed many products in that line, some of which used well-known characters from Disney,Warner/DC Comics, and others. The Activity Center line of products introduced video from the feature films and cartoons in the application, a remarkable technical accomplishment at that time. Gryphon was acquired by Cendant Software (then CUC International), a Fortune 500 company.
Wilensky contributed to the development of these various products in the areas of software and user interface design, product management, audio and video production and new research and development work on audio/video compression. His software was used to make some of the special effects of several feature films, such as Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) and others. Wilensky’s work was covered and showcased by print and television media around the world, and won numerous awards.
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