At Cornell University, overwhelming interest sparked the creation of The Game Design Initiative at Cornell University (GDIAC). This organization is a group of students, faculty, alumni, and community members who are devoted to the establishment of game design as an academic discipline.
The undeniable popularity of games draws the attention of academia, industry, and even the government on areas of design, development, and social impact. The game industry, like the film industry, is an unmistakable force in entertainment. And like filmmaking, game design can only thrive and evolve with the support of a strong academic foundation.
| Zynga Information Session | |
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Representatives from Zynga are coming to Cornell to talk about internships for students, as well as job opportunities for new graduates. An information session is planned for Thursday, November 18th. Zynga Information Session |
| Jim Waldo Talks about Project Darkstar | |
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Jim Waldo is a Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he investigates next-generation large-scale distributed systems. He is currently the technical lead of Project Darkstar, a multi-threaded, distributed infrastructure for massive multi-player on-line games and virtual worlds. He is the CS colloquium speaker for November 5th, and he will talk about his work in this area. Horizontal Scale in Low-Latency Environments |
| CIS 3000 Spring 2010 | |
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As many of you may have noticed, the Spring semester offering of CIS 3000 (Introduction to Game Design) is now completely full. The enrollment cap is set by the physical capacity of CL3, and so there is not much that we can do to increase the size of the class. If you are still interested in enrolling, Walker White has set-up a waiting list to get into the class. Please contact him to get on the waiting list. Students always drop the first week of class, as they determine whether or not they have the time to devote to such a large project, and so many of the people on the waiting list will actually get into the class. Preference is given to artists, but after that, the waiting list will be consulted on a first-come, first-served basis. |