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Innovating Game Development Speaker Series

Assistant Professor Chad Jenkins, in conjunction with CS196-2, is hosting a series of guest lectures by leading game development professionals. Speakers will discuss the current state of technology for game development and suggest innovative directions for going beyond the state-of-the-art. Topics will include novel user interface paradigms and devices, improving artificial intelligence for non-player characters, advanced tools for computer graphics and animation, and new types of games such as robotic entertainment.

All lectures are open to the public and will begin at 11am in the Lubrano Conference Room, CIT 477. The speaker schedule includes:

2/22 Al Reed / Demiurge http ...

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Amy Greenwald Receives Sloan Research Fellowship

Amy Greenwald, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has received a 2006 Sloan Research Fellowship for her work with “AI agents”—artificially intelligent, programmed decision-makers. Amy’s research in simultaneous and sequential auction environments combines the theoretical and practical, and draws from and contributes to a variety of disciplines including AI, decision theory, game theory, and economics. She is a member of the Board of Trustees and a six-time finalist in the annual, international Trading Agent Competition (TAC).

The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars. Selection procedures are designed to ...

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