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Michael Seifert (programmer)
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<p>Michael Seifert (born February 1969 in <a href="/facts/Copenhagen/58Tl28IX">Copenhagen</a>) is a <a href="/facts/Denmark/KVtykzsw">Danish</a> <a href="/facts/Computer_programmer/WGTS1Jv9">computer programmer</a>, <a href="/facts/Inventor/P3LdUHBY">inventor</a>, businessman, and <a href="/facts/Entrepreneur/gr8E0Su2">entrepreneur</a> in the IT industry. He is co-developer of <a href="/facts/DikuMUD/4M0Bazp9">DikuMUD</a>, a popular multiplayer text-based role-playing game <a href="/facts/Codebase/MT0CJ4oD">codebase</a>, and former chief executive officer of <a href="/facts/Sitecore/TzGynBK7">Sitecore</a>, a global customer experience management software company, which he co-founded in Copenhagen, <a href="/facts/Denmark/KVtykzsw">Denmark</a> in 2001. In 2013 Seifert won Denmark's annual IT Prize (IT-Prisen) for lifetime achievement in the field of information technology. </p>