Penny-Arcade mentioned Simutronics/Gemstone in today's post.

[Ashliana]

Meet Elonka Dunin. Longtime game developer at Simutronics Corp, creator of GemStone, DragonRealms, CyberStrike (“Game Of The Year!”), Facebook’s Fantasy University, and HeroEngine (which powers Bioware’s Star Wars: The Old Republic).

Simutronics’ newest game just hit the App Store - Tiny Heroes, which I can easily recommend. I met Elonka at a booksigning in St. Louis, where she gave me a copy of her Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms. She’s a world expert on unsolved codes, such as the Kryptos sculpture at the center of CIA Headquarters; and helped author Dan Brown with code research for his latest novel, The Lost Symbol, to the point where he inserted a character in the book which is an anagram of her own name. We mail on occasion, and she’s such a specific combination of interesting skills I wanted to ask her a question: When did you know your brain worked differently from other people?

More: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2011/10/12

[Kuyuk]

She’s a world expert on unsolved codes,

So... she cant solve them either. Gotcha.

[Methais]

So... she cant solve them either. Gotcha.

[DCSL]

Wow, good for her!

[4a6c1]

Really cool.

[Drew]

Oh I didn't realize this was frontpage on PA from the other thread. That's boss.

[septus]

Feels a bit out of character for the post to read like that. Bit strange. I wonder if Elonka still goes to Defcon.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I met her at a CON once. I always thought she was sexy, more so because of her cranium.

[AnticorRifling]

I haven't read penny arcade in years, damn you firewall!