Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born 14 March 1956) is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer who developed "Tetris" while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D center. He only started to get royalties from his creation in 1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed The Tetris Company. Pajitnov was born on 14 March 1956 in Moscow, in the Soviet Union. He studied applied mathematics at the Moscow Aviation Institute. He then went on to work on speech recognition at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre where he would develop Tetris.
25th Anniversary: The New Chapter 25th Anniversary: The New Chapter 25th Anniversary: The New Chapter is an album by the jazz group the World Saxophone Quartet released by the Canadian Justin Time label. The album features performances and compositions by Hamiet Bluiett, John Purcell, Oliver Lake and David Murray. The AllMusic review by Paula Edelstein awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "This is the WSQ's sixth recording for the Justin Time label and exceeds the listening possibilities and interpretations of their "Takin' It to the Next Level" CD because of their extensive range of approaches, new sonorities, hi-tech themes, and the overdubbing experimentation.". "The Penguin