Veda Hlubinka-Cook (born Robert Cook, on December 26, 1964) is an American video game designer, software developer, and co-founder of Metaweb. The company was acquired by Google in 2010.
Cook was a video game programmer at Broderbund in the 1980s. She designed and wrote the games Gumball and D/Generation; was the model for one of the characters in Jordan Mechner's game Prince of Persia; and was technical director for The Last Express.
She came out as transgender in 2017.