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Ed Fries to speak at DePaul
Ed Fries, former VP of Game Publishing at Microsoft, will speak right before Geek 'till Dawn at DePaul Center 11th floor, 5-7 PM.Ed Fries was vice president of game publishing at Microsoft during much of the Xbox's lifecycle. He was a prime evangelist of the platform to game developers and had an important role in the acquisition of developers Bungie Studios, Ensemble Studios and Rare.Fries left Microsoft in January 2004. He consulted with a startup company, FireAnt, that was later sold to Sony Online Entertainment. He was also involved with several start ups including AGEIA, which aims to bring the first 'physics accelerator' chip for games to market, and Emotiv Systems, a company building an EEG based game controller.Fries is currently wo
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Exciting Guests Coming to Visiting Artists and Lecture Series
The School of Cinema and Interactive Media's Visiting Artist and Lecture Series proudly welcomes three special guests over the next three Fridays, including Marc Webb (director "500 Days of Summer"), Tom DiCillo (director "Living In Oblivion") and Jim McKairnes (Sr. Vice President Paramount Studios in charge of Cable Television). These events give our students the rare opportunity to learn from some of the brightest professionals in their field. CIM Visiting Artist and Lecture Series MARC WEBB - FRIDAY OCTOBER 16th, 7pm Perhaps best known recently for his directorial debut “500 Days of Summer”, MARC WEBB had already established himself as one of the most prolific and innovative contemporary music video directors. Marc has crafted ground-
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Daniel Mittleman Secures US Dept. of Education Grant
The Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) at the US Department of Education recently awarded CDM professor Daniel Mittleman with a $76,000 grant to design, build, and evaluate the “Atlantis Consortium Team Interaction Virtual Environment.” The Atlantis Program consists of over 80 four University teams of faculty who supervise US/EU student exchange programs. This research project addresses the fact that these cross-organizational faculty teams lack methods for collecting lessons learned and passing on best practices for supporting intercultural academic exchange programs. Building from the basic concepts of social networking systems, this grant supports the analysis, development, and implementation of an environmen
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CDM's Cleland-Huang and Mobasher Receive NSF Grant
Dr. Bamshad Mobasher and Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang received an NSF grant from the division of Information Integration and Informatics for $499,892 over three years to investigate the application of data mining techniques and recommender systems technologies within the software engineering process. This research represents a synergy between Dr. Mobasher's work in Web mining and Dr. Cleland-Huang's work in Systems and Software Engineering. The research is intended to develop tools and algorithms that help automate requirement elicitation and management processes in large projects. This is a timely project designed to address the needs of an increasing number of organizations who adopt collaborative tools such as wikis and forums to gather and m
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CDM Student to Present Paper at ACE 2009
CDM undergrad Matt Zachara’s research paper on the Nintendo Virtual Boy console will be presented at the 2009 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technologies (ACE) to be held in Athens, Greece. ACE is a leading academic ACM conference whose focus is to gather researchers from academia and industry-researchers to stimulate discussion in the development and advancement of interactive art and entertainment applications. Matt has spent the last year working with Professor Jose Zagal doing video game research. Their paper, “Challenges for Success in Stereo Gaming: A Virtual Boy Case Study”, explores some of the challenges that must be overcome for mass-adoption of stereoscopic 3D video game systems. Nintendo’s Virtu
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Wicklander Fellowship Awarded to CDM Professor
The Institute for Business and Professional Ethics has awarded its annual Wicklander Fellowship award for the 2009-2010 academic year to two faculty. The new recipients are Susan Bandes, professor in the College of Law, for her research on "Emotion and the Law;" and Tom Muscarello, professor in the College of Computing and Digital Media, for his research on “Bioethics: Impact of Massive Data Repositories on Informed Consent in Genomic Studies.” The Wicklander Fellowship (formerly the Wicklander rotating chair) is awarded annually to two or three full-time faculty members who demonstrate an interest in applied or professional ethics as these topics relate to his or her field of research.
Jazz Musician, Film Composer, and DePaul Alum Harry Manfredini speaks at CIM Lecture Series
Born in Chicago, Harry has spent most of his life in music. While living in the Midwest, he worked as an arranger and performer. He also earned a Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University and a Master of Arts degree from Western Illinois University, where he subsequently taught theory, orchestration, and conducting. Harry moved to New York to pursue his doctorate at Columbia University. Upon completion of his doctoral courses, the opportunity arose for him to further his longtime dream of a career in film music. The years of classical training and the twenty years in the popular music scene (he plays great sax) combined with a good sense of drama to make him a natural in film music. Harry has scored over eighty films.
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Adjunct faculty member, Mark Grechanik, wins best paper award at the 2nd International Conference on Software Testing, Verfication, and Validation
Adjunct faculty member Mark Grechanik won the best paper award at the 2nd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST 2009) for his paper "Inferring Types of References to GUI Objects in Test Scripts," written with his Accenture Technology Labs colleagues Chen Fu and Qing Xie.
This is DePaul Video Contest
DePaul CDM students swept the award categories in the first ever “This is DePaul” student video contest. A panel of 20 judges from across the university evaluated the submitted videos on creativity, originality, depiction of DePaul, overall impression and technical execution. First place: Justin Flocco, Digital Cinema JuniorSecond Place: Paul Gustafson, Digital Cinema FreshmanThird Place: Brendan Leahy, Digital Cinema JuniorAudience Choice: Paul Hennessy, Digital Cinema Freshman and Mark Carroll, History Freshman To view all the winning videos, visit depaul.edu/thisisdepaul.
Cyber Defense Competition
The DePaul team placed 2nd at the 2009 Midwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition at Inver Hills Community College in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. The regional competition included 6 teams from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The winning team, Baker College, won the national level competition last year and will be going back for a second time in April.
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