Mads Haahr is a multidisciplinary computer scientist and award-winning game designer with over 25 years of experience bridging academic research, product engineering and entrepreneurial ventures. As Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin he leads teaching and research in game studies, game AI and ubiquitous computing while directing an MSc in Interactive Digital Media. He founded RANDOM.ORG, the Internet’s leading true random number service, and has launched Haunted Planet Studios to pioneer story-driven location-based AR gaming, showing a rare ability to move ideas from theory to public-facing systems. His background blends a PhD in computer science with BA-level literature training, giving him a distinctive mix of analytical rigor and narrative sensibility that shapes his work in interactive narrative. Based in Ireland, he combines deep systems experience dating back to HP-UX and SunOS administration with contemporary research into games and distributed mobile platforms.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin
Visiting Scholar, Interactive Narrative, Visiting Scholar, Interactive Narrative at Georgia Institute of Technology
Visiting Student, Computer Science, Visiting Student, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet
Random.org JSON-RPC API (Release 3) Python implementation.
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 years 3 months
apirpcpythonrelease-apijson-org
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Mads Haahr - Professor In Computer Science at RANDOM.ORG