John Mathieson
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John Mathieson is a Computer Science graduate who initially worked for Sinclair Research before going on to found Flare with fellow ex-Sinclair colleagues Martin Brennan and Ben Cheese.
After working at Flare on the Flare 1 and its development into the Konix Multisystem, he went on to work for Atari developing the Atari Jaguar with Martin Brennan. John moved to California and worked on the Jaguar 2 which never saw the light of day.
He led the development of the ill-fated NUON media processor at VM Labs. He moved to work for nVIDIA at the end of 2001.
External links
- http://www.chez.com/toxicmag/real/articles/mathieson.htm - Interview with Mathieson dicussing the Jaguar
- http://www.vmlabs.de/team.htm - List of VM Labs team with picture of John
Disambiguation: There is also a John A. Mathieson who was Premier of Prince Edward Island in the early twentieth century, and a John Mathieson (cinematographer), who has worked on films such as Kingdom of Heaven and The Phantom of the Opera (2004).