- Wei-Hwa Huang
Wei-Hwa Huang (黃煒華, born August 4, 1975) is an award-winning American
puzzle r and member of the US Team for theWorld Puzzle Federation .Huang was a
Putnam Fellow in 1993. Huang has won the annualWorld 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 theCalifornia 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 atGoogle 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 withColumbia 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.
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External links
* [http://weihwa-puzzles.appspot.com/ Wei-Hwa Huang's puzzle gadget page at Google]
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