Yes, it’s true. The spring makeover has begun I have shed my winter coat and chopped off my hair. Which was really dumb, seeing as how Boston just decided “Oh, yeah, it’s Winter!” and dropped something like 30 degrees in 48 hours. Arg. Maybe I’ll keep the beard until I see some daffodils.
In other news, I have decided to co-captain a team in the Get Fit @ MIT program. My co-captain is Dan Roy, and our other team members are Ivan Askwith, Sam Ford and Dan’s friend Greg Little. I have yet to meet Greg, but aside from Dan we make up the Chubby White Guys’ union in CMS. On Sunday night Ivan, Dan and I met up with our friend Alec on the b-ball courts at the Z Center, where Dan properly taught the rest of us the true meaning of schooled. That was mortifying. My goal? To shape up in time for March, which is apparently going to be a month of much, much traveling…
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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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