[5] At Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Weaver helped redesign the campus radio and television studios, and modified Link Trainers to better simulate situational spatial awareness.
[3] Weaver moved to New York for post-graduate work at Columbia University and got a night job as an Assistant Director of News at NBC.
During this time, Weaver contributed to early work in graphical interfaces, optical storage, and computer-assisted editing, including encoding spatial information for tracking camera shots.
[10] He is a Fellow of the Futures of Entertainment Consortium; a Board Member of the Communications Technology Roadmap Group and a visiting scientist in the Microphotonics Center.
[3] Recently, he was asked to co-direct a new Center at MIT, which will use the science and epistemology of game tools to enhance STEM education for children of multiple age groups.
Some of his past and present appointments include: In 2016, as part of the MIT educational contingent, he became Director of Interactive Simulation for the AIM Photonics Academy.
[13] In 2016, Weaver was appointed a Distinguished Research Scholar by the Smithsonian Institution[14] and installed as the first Project Director of the newly created Video Game Pioneers Archive within the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
[16][17] He is also a co-writer/creator of the multi-volume science-fiction series The Tenth Planet published by Ballantine Books[18] and was the technical editor and contributor for Fundamentals of Game Design.