The Miller brothers formed Miller Associates in 1983 to design and develop a baseball simulation-- APBA Major League Players Baseball. Miller Associates, Inc. has now published 135 products to accompany the baseball game, for DOS and Windows, including eight major upgrades to the APBA family of programs, an online playing environment for the DOS version, and the Bill James Electronic Baseball Encyclopedia for Windows (CD-ROM), the first PC-based baseball encyclopedia. In 1994 Baseball for Windows won Computer Gaming World's coveted Premier Finalist, Sports Product of the Year.
The Company's principal business is now developing and publishing software based on the control of language. Its proprietary development tool--the ArtSoundTM Authoring System-- allows intelligent, context sensitive, multi-channel sound and voice output from very large sound libraries. Baseball for Windows 3.0 with Ernie Harwell Broadcast Blast (CD-ROM), using ArtSound, is the first full-broadcast PC sports game. Additional products are in development.
Miller Associates is an Affiliate Partner of Maxis, creators of SimCity and the country's leading simulation gaming software publisher. Maxis provides retail distribution and strategic services to the Company.
Kenneth B. Miller, president, has spent nineteen years in publishing, five years in scientific and technical books with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and fourteen years in software. He is chairman of the board of trustees, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and a member of the board of directors, Cumberland Island Historic Foundation, Inc. He was the first director of Project Scoresheet.
Roswell C. Miller, vice president, design and development, spent eleven years in programming, development, and management positions with the International Business Machines Corporation. He participated in IBM's Future Systems project as the head of the natural language technology development team. After IBM he held senior management positions in the satellite communications business, including four years with Satellite Business Systems (SBS). He has directed the development of consumer software at Miller Associates for eight years.