Background
Kim was born in 1955 in Washington District of Columbia and grew up in Rolling Hills Estates, California.
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He had an early interest in mathematics, education, and art, and attended Stanford University, receiving a Bachelor in music, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computers and Graphic Design under Donald Knuth.
Career
He started writing an occasional "Boggler" column for Discover magazine in 1990, and became an exclusive columnist in 1999, and created hundreds of other puzzles for magazines such as Scientific American and Games, as well as thousands of puzzles for computer games. He was the holder of the Harold Keables chair at Iolani School in 2008. In 1981, he created a book called Inversions, words that can be read in more than one way.
His first puzzles appeared in Scientific American in Martin Gardner"s "Mathematical Games" column.
Kim is one of the best-known masters of the art of ambigrams. Isaac Asimov called Kim "the Escher of the alphabet".
Kim is a regular speaker on puzzle design, such as at the International Game Developers Conference and Casual Games Conference.
