Wei-Hwa Huang

Wei-Hwa Huang

Wei-Hwa Huang (黃煒華, born August 4, 1975) is an award-winning American puzzler and member of the US Team for the World Puzzle Federation.

Huang was a Putnam Fellow in 1993. Huang has won the annual World Puzzle Championship on four occasions: 1995 and 1997–1999. [cite web |url= http://wpc.puzzles.com/history/index.htm |title= World Puzzle Championship - WPC History |publisher= wpc.puzzles.com] [cite journal |author=Spice, Byron | title= Prince of Puzzles |journal= Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date= 1999-10-25 |pages= A6]

Huang graduated from Montgomery Blair High School [cite journal |title= Montgomery Has 3 In Westinghouse's Top 10 Finalists |journal= The Washington Post |date= 1993-03-09 |pages= B7] and the California Institute of Technology [cite journal |title= Puzzlement |journal= The New York Times |date= 1995-11-12 |pages= Section 6; Page 14] and was an employee at Google until July 2008. One of his most famous projects was the "Da Vinci Code Quest" on Google, which was a set of 24 puzzles launched on April 17, 2006 in cooperation with Columbia Pictures. [cite web |url= http://www.movieweb.com/news/20/12120.php |title= The Da Vinci Code Quest Launches On Google |publisher= www.movieweb.com]

Huang submitted a crossword puzzle to the "New York Times" newspaper which was published on Tuesday, September 10, 2002.

Google gives their employees 20% of their time to work on personal projects. Much of Huang's time for August 2006 to December 2006 was spent on his puzzle gadget.

References

External links

* [http://weihwa-puzzles.appspot.com/ Wei-Hwa Huang's puzzle gadget page at Google]


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