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Why this UCLA professor thinks she inspired the video game'Halo' UCLA associate professor Patricia Dickson was at her office complex on June 6, 2017. UCLA associate professor Patricia Dickson was at her office complex on June 6, 2017. A brief friendship that began with an online chat and an awkward date may have inspired one of the world's best-selling video games. For two decades, UCLA associate professor of pediatrics Patricia Dickson remembered nothing of her college flirtation with Jason Jones, who went on to create the sci-fi shooter "Halo."