EECS Department Colloquium Series
The Future of Computational Media 
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014 Michael Mateas
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ABSTRACT:
Last month, UC Santa Cruz created the first Department of Computational Media in the Baskin School of Engineering. As a discipline, computational media combines the theories and research approaches of the arts and humanities with those of computer science to analyze, explore, and enable the computer as a medium for creative expression. Michael Mateas is its inaugural department chair. Come and learn about his vision for the field.
BIOGRAPHY:
Prof. Mateas is recognized internationally as a leader in computationally-focused design and analysis approaches in playable media. He is the founding chair of the new Department of Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz. He founded and co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, one of the largest technically-oriented game research groups in the world, and is also the founding director of the Center for Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz. His research interests include interactive storytelling and autonomous characters, procedural content generation, AI-based interactive art, and software studies. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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