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Milen Milkovski I first started playing Bridge when I was 12. My father introduced me to Bridge and in my high school and university years Bridge was big part of my live. I got involved with GGP in 1999. Since 1999, I have been providing Great Game Products with technical support, database support, and networking support. I have enjoyed my relationship with Great Game Products.	BACK TO TOP

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Jason Rosenfeld has been a programmer for Great Game Products
Inc., since graduating from Northwestern University with a BS in Computer
Science in the summer of 2002. He serves as the company's computer bidding
specialist and also has also been involved in many other projects for GGP
including authoring Bridge Baron Companion: How to Get the Most Out of your
Computer Bridge Game and the development of the Learn and Practice Bidding
Conventions.

Jason is also a competitive bridge player, traveling all over
the US and the world to compete in tournaments. He competed for the United
States in the World Junior Pairs Championships in Nymburg, Czech Republic in
1999 and in Tata, Budapest in 2001 and plays at nearly every North American
Bridge Championships. He is an ACBL Bronze Life Master. Jason learned to
play bridge as a child from his mother, but didn't start playing the game
seriously until getting to Northwestern. While at Northwestern he served
for two years as the president of the Northwestern University Bridge Club
and also helped run bridge lessons to get fellow students playing the game.

Jason is unmarried and living in Boston, MA. His other
interests include playing tennis, trivia, and poker, as well as traveling as
much as possible. Previous work experience is limited to college
internships, including one for Deitel & Deitel, a prominent computer science
textbook company.

Stephen Smith is the lead programmer for Great Game Products. He began working on a Bridge Baron research project as a graduate student in 1989,and began part-time consulting on Bridge Baron in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1997; his dissertation dealt primarily with the use of task-network
planning techniques in Bridge Baron. After three years as a professor at Hood College, he came to Great Game Products full-time in 1999.

Mechanical Engineering - Boston University 1987
Masters Degree - MBA, Boston University 2001

I graduated from Boston University with Mechanical Engineering Degree in 1987. After graduating I worked for Corabi International Telemetrics, which was a pioneer in the field of the telemedicine. The company developed a system which uses a remote controlled robotic microscope to make a pathology diagnosis. I moved back to Boston in 1989 and began working for Cambridge Computer Services. The company provided network services and consulting for various companies in the Boston area. After leaving Cambridge Computer Services, I became a Network and Systems consultant working for various companies in the Boston Area, including National Medical Care, Houghton Mifflin, and Pilot Software. In 1997, my wife and I went out St. Louis so she could get from Masters Degree. During this time I worked for Boeing as a Senior Systems Program Manager. After completing her degree, my wife and I came back to Boston, and I entered the MBA program at

Boston University. After I graduated I became CEO of Great Game Products, Inc., which is located out of Potomac, MD. Great Game Products specializes in the development of computer bridge products for players at all skill levels. I currently live in North Andover with my wife, Rebecca, and sons, Austin and Deacon.

Origin of Bridge Baron

Bridge Baron is the result of over 42 years of research, passion, and intelligent collaboration with some of the brightest minds in the country. The game was originally created by Tom Throop Sr. He has devoted more time to this subject than any other person in the world and has pioneered the development of computer bridge programs.

Tom Sr. knows a great deal about computers and the game of bridge. In 1958, while working at a US Navy Lab in the District of Columbia, he programmed a Univac computer to play bridge. The machine, which had a 1,000-word memory, could play only one round before it ran out of computer power. Some years later, Tom Sr. wrote some play routines using the GE time-sharing system.

Later, Tom Sr. designed bridge software for Radio Shack, Apple, and Commodore computers. Eventually, he founded a company in Bethesda, Maryland called Great Game Products, Inc., that focused on selling his Bridge Baron software. (Excerpts from "Program for a Better Bridge Game" Washington Post, September 15, 1997.)

Tom Sr. is the president of Great Game Products, the most successful company in the development and marketing of computer bridge products. The company was founded in 1985, and has an unsurpassed track record for the past 18 years. Great Game Products specializes in the development of computer bridge products for players at all skill levels. Great Game Products' flagship product is Bridge Baron.

Tom is a lifelong bridge and chess player, and also a Silver Life Master of the American Contract Bridge League. He has written the only book on bridge software, titled "Computer Bridge". In the chess world, Tom has a draw against the one-time US Champion, Arnold Denker. Tom also reached the rank of the 35th highest ranked postal chess player in the US.

In the early 1980s, Tom wrote the only book on bridge software, titled Computer Bridge published by Hayden Books. By 1982, Tom had produced the first complete computer bridge program, BRIDGE BARON 1. In 1985, he founded Great Game Products.

The accomplishments of Bridge Baron, first marketed in 1982, are unequaled by any other bridge program. The Bridge Baron has won 5 world computer bridge championships and has been one of the most popular bridge computer software games in the world.