Called Croquet, it runs on top of operating systems like Windows, Linux and Apple.
This spring the universities of Minnesota and Wisconsin will try Croquet for collaborative classroom labs.
"The point about croquet is that it cannot be made into a spectator sport, " says Graves.
Some of his inventions from that time, including an object-oriented programming language called Smalltalk, went into Croquet.
In croquet you watch one person demonstrate his skill, and then the other person has his turn.
Outside beckoned tennis and croquet, wild game, formal gardens and great mountain views.
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Meadowood began life as a local country club, and golf, tennis, and fitness are still as prominent as croquet here.
Croquet-style putting, in which a player straddles the line of a putt, was nixed in 1968, much to Sam Snead's dismay.
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She said the Hull East MP had been presented with a mallet at croquet club in Beverley, Yorkshire, in a private ceremony.
Goatacre Village Hall, Swindon Croquet Club and the Stratton Churchway Bowls Club will also use the money to upgrade facilities and equipment.
"Croquet in a garden is the same as beach cricket, " says Graves.
The U.S. military is evaluating Croquet for training radio technicians to build field communications systems in virtual terrain replicating the landscape in Iraq.
His image problems were later compounded when a newspaper published pictures of him playing croquet with staff at his grace-and-favour country residence, Dorneywood.
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Rub elbows with the other guests in the elegant public spaces, from the fireplaced library to the outdoor heated pool or the championship croquet court.
Intel, whose average employee is at any time on three different projects, is looking at Croquet as a way to make juggling work projects gamelike.
Croquet packs a lot of power for a little piece of software, one with but a single line of code for every 300 in Windows XP.
But the Test team is led by Jersey's 20-something tyro Matt Burrows, croquet's very own James Anderson, and current world champion Robert Fulford is in his 30s.
Kay built Croquet with help from six crack programmers, funding it first with his own money and then through Hewlett-Packard's research labs, where he is a senior fellow.
Croquet comes as many institutions struggle with large, spread-out teams.
When the hedgehog pops out, he rolls through croquet wickets.
"Many rule revisions have occurred only long after an issue was first identified, such as the changes relating to croquet-style putting, the 14-club maximum, and the stymie, " Nager said.
For those doctors who could not keep up at golf have, like birds with the wrong size beaks, had to leave the links, developing skills at croquet, woodworking, spelunking or downloading hip-hop music.
The lovely North Teign River is a site for serious fly-fishing, and there are hiking trails around the estate, some of which extend out to Dartmoor, along with a tennis court and a croquet lawn.
Perhaps MacLaurin has made the mistake - as I did - of assuming that croquet at the top level is the same game that some of us might have played in a posh pal's back garden.
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