This morning I was crusing through my calendar and found that one of my exes, Amanda Kost, has her birthday coming up on Friday. Now, Apple has a new feature where Address Book can feed birthdays straight to iCal, so I started to update her entry and realized that I didn’t know what her new name was, since she got married earlier this year. (And yes, it’s still distinctly odd to have your exes get married.) So I popped over to her weblog, where I discovered two things: one, that I think she kept her maiden name, and two, that as of May 22nd, she is now officially a doctor! I’m really proud of her – this has been her dream as long as I’ve known her. Now she and her husband, Darren, are moving to Seattle, which is also something that I think we talked about way back in the day. It lookks like the pieces in her life are all coming together, and I couldn’t be happier for her. Wow. Dr. Kost, medicine woman. š
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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