1. Digital Interests Larry Dailey Joseph DeLappe Sushil J. Louis Media Art Computer Science and Engineering

2. Ph.d. in 1993 from Indiana University Area of research: Artificial Intelligence: Genetic Algorithms evolve smart agents

3. Artificial Intelligence in Games

4. ProgramsPrograms ART 345 ART 350 ART 441 JOUR 451 ENG 205 ENG 252 MUS 233 MUS 204 ELECTIVES

5. PROGRAMS – New Courses

6. CSE courses CS 135 – Intro to CS (no prior programming)‏ CS 281 – Intro to Game Development (no prior programming required)‏ CS 381 – Game Development Pipeline CS/CPE 481 – Advanced Game Dev CS 480 – Graphics CS 482 – Artificial Intelligence CS 483 – Advanced AI (in games)‏ Interdisciplinary Major will require courses from Art, Journalism, Music, Theatre, or others.

7. Entrepreneurship

8. DEMOS SNAKES - CS 135 – first course in CS SHMUPS – 2D graphics and sound (and AI)‏ LAGOONCRAFT – 3D Real-time Strategy

9. Teaching – Student projects

11. Contact information Computer Science and Engineering, UNR http://www.cse.unr.edu http://www.cse.unr.edu/~sushil/ This presentation: Oct 17, 2008 –http://www.cse.unr.edu/~sushil/games/ppt/http://www.cse.unr.edu/~sushil/games/ppt/