Events Archive: 2012

• Games Blacks Love to Play
  Cecil Brown
  Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, The Simularium (Engineering 2, Room 180)
  
• Game Telemetry and Crowd Sourcing New Game Services: How you take over the game business.
  Rich Hilleman, VP, Chief Creative Director, Electronic Arts
  Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM, The Dark Lab (Digital Arts Research Center, Room 108)
  
• Microsoft Recruitment Visit
  Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM, E2 599
  
• Finding Levity for Serious Games
  Peter Brinson, Instructor of Cinema Practice, USC Interactive Media Division
  Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Media Arts Webinar featuring Noah Wardrip-Fruin
  Thursday, January 26, 2012, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM,
  
• Global Game Jam Keynote
  Mike Mika, Creative Director @ Making Fun, LLC; Head of Development, Other Ocean Group
  Friday, January 27, 2012, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM, The Simularium (E2 180)
  
• Global Game Jam
  Friday, January 27, 2012, 6:00 PM to 11:59 PM, Undergraduate Game Lab (JBE 268)
  
• Winter Job & Internship Fair
  Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, College 9/10 Multi-Purpose Room
  
• Revisiting the Photoshop of AI Debate
  Michael Mateas, Director, Associate Professor, The Center for Games and Playable Media
  Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Porter Prototype Night
  Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM, Porter Hitchcock Lounge
  
• More Than A Feeling: Affective Design and the Future of Games
  Chelsea Howe, Social Chocolate
  Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Speech-based decision support system: POMDP-based dialog modeling, and TTS
  Teruhisa Misu, NICT
  Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
  
• Building a Comedy of Simulated Manners
  Emily Short
  Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Social Games are DEAD!
  Graeme Devine, GRL Games
  Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
  Project AWESOmE
  Thursday, February 23, 2012, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Locations around Engineering 2 and Jack Baskin Engineering Buildings
  
• Puzzle Solving Contest sponsored by SWE
  Friday, February 24, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Microsoft Hiring Info Session & Resume Drop
  Jeremy Lee, Senior Manager of the College Hire and Internship Program, Microsoft Studios
  Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
  
• Coding for America: Reimagining civic engagement in the 21st century
  Ruthie BenDor, Code for America
  Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Porter Prototype Night
  Porter Video Game Festival
  Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM, Porter Hitchcock Lounge
  
• @ GDC: What is a Research Game?
  Michael Mateas and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
  Monday, March 5, 2012, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM, Room 2004, West Hall, 2nd Fl
  
• @ GDC: Turing Tantrums: AI Developers Rant!
  Michael Treanor
  Monday, March 5, 2012, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM, Room 2006, West Hall, 2nd Fl
  
• @ GDC: Beyond Eliza: Constructing Socially Engaging AI
  Josh McCoy and Michael Treanor
  Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Room 2006, West Hall, 2nd Fl
  
• @ GDC: How Designing for Love Can Change the World
  Jane Pinckard
  Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Room 2009, West Hall, 2nd Fl
  
• @ GDC: Knowing the Past: Game Education Needs Game History
  Noah Wardrip-Fruin
  Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 1:45 PM to 2:45 PM, Room 2004, West Hall, 2nd Fl
  
• @ GDC: Game Educators Rant!
  Michael Mateas
  Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Room 2004, West Hall, 2nd Fl
  
• @ GDC: Back to the Garage: The Return of Indie Development (From Those Who Were There and Some Who've Just Arrived)
  Jane Pinckard
  Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM, Room 135, North Hall
  
• Interaction Systems
  Zach Gage
  Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Senior Game Design Studio Public Game Demonstrations
  Friday, March 16, 2012, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, Jack Baskin Auditorium (JBE 101)
  
• Player Experience and Emotions in Games
  Nicole Lazzaro, President, XEODesign
  Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Daniel Benmergui and Storyteller
  Daniel Benmergui
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Zynga Campus Visit & Tech Talk
  Zynga
  Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Career Center Library (3rd floor)
  
• One Page Designs
  Stone Librande, Creative Director, EA/Maxis
  Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Unlocking the Power of Play: Immersive Narrative in the Civic Realm
  Jeff Hull, Creative Director, Nonchalance
  Friday, April 27, 2012, 2:00 PM to 3:10 PM, Media Theater M110 (during CMPS 80K)
  
• DANM 2012 MFA Exhibition
  Saturday, April 28, 2012, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, The Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)
  
• What is Play?
  Chaim Gingold, UCSC
  Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• The UCSC Playtest Fest
  Friday, May 4, 2012, 11:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Baskin Engineering Courtyard and Simularium (E2 180)
  
• A Conversation with Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud, Artist and Author
  Friday, May 4, 2012, 4:00 PM to 8:30 PM, The Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)
  
• DANM 2012 MFA Exhibition Reception
  Friday, May 4, 2012, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM, The Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)
  
• Games I Will Never Make
  Shane Liesegang, Game Designer, Bethesda Softworks
  Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• The .Z5 Obstructions: Leveraging Constraints in Interactive Fiction
  Adam Cadre
  Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, The Dark Lab @ DARC (Digital Arts Research Center)
  
• This Talk Has Been Gamified!
  Jim Whitehead, Chair and Professor, Computer Science
  Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 11:30 AM to 12:15 PM, SAP Palo Alto campus, Building 1, 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
  
• Graeme Devine speaks in 80K
  Graeme Devine
  Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 2:00 PM to 3:10 PM, Media Theater M110 (during CMPS 80K)
  
• Technology and Education: How Will it Change the Game?
  Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and others
  Thursday, May 17, 2012, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM, Microsoft, 1065 La Avenida, Building One, Mountain View, CA
  
• Exploiting Search Query Logs for Spoken Language Understanding
  Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Principal Scientist, Microsoft Speech Labs
  Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Digital Art and Democracy Symposium
  Carlos Motta, Soraya Murray, Warren Sack, and Peggy Weil
  Friday, June 1, 2012, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM, TBD
  
• Game Preservation, You Have Met Your DOOM: "Significant Properties" and Computer Games
  Henry Lowood, Curator & Lecturer, Stanford University
  Monday, June 4, 2012, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
  
• Game Design and Global Commerce
  Matt Maclaurin, Senior Director in Design, eBay, Inc.
  Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• The 2nd Annual Sammy Awards
  Friday, June 15, 2012, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM, The Rio Theatre
  
• Media Systems Workshop
  Sunday, August 26, 2012, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM,
  
• IVA 2012
  Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM,
  
• SPIN Studio Summer 13 Info Session
  Monday, October 1, 2012, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
  
• Molleindustria: radical games against the tyranny of entertainment
  Paolo Pedercini, Molleindustria
  Monday, October 1, 2012, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
  
• EA Game Design Workshop
  Michael John, Sr. Creative Director, EA
  Monday, October 8, 2012, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Career Center
  
• "Scoreless" Gaming: Beyond Video Games - Interactive Storytelling
  Kevin Bruner, CTO/Co-Founder/Executive Producer, Telltale Games
  Friday, October 12, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Video Games and the Human Interface: Past and Future
  Thomas Zimmerman, IBM Almaden Research Center
  Friday, October 19, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Lucasfilm Information Session
  University Relations Team, Lucasfilm
  Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Games and Playable Media MS Information Session
  Jim Whitehead and Noah Wardrip-Fruin
  Thursday, October 25, 2012, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
  
• Designing for Feeling
  Robin Hunicke
  Friday, October 26, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Microsoft Office Hours
  Microsoft
  Monday, October 29, 2012, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Baskin Lounge
  
• Resume Review & Tech Interview Workshop
  Microsoft
  Monday, October 29, 2012, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
  
• Fall Job & Internship Fair
  Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, College 9/10 Multi-Purpose Room
  
• Microsoft Tech Talk
  Microsoft
  Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• The Future of Narrative: Interactive Stories as a Genuinely New Entertainment Form
  Tawny Schlieski, Intel
  Friday, November 2, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Game Industry Internship Workshop
  Friday, November 2, 2012, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Career Center, Cervantes Room
  
• eBay Senior Design Project Presentation
  Neel Sundaresan, Senior Director of the labs, eBay
  Thursday, November 8, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• The Collective Wisdom in Millions of Weblog Narratives
  Andrew Gordon, Research Associate Professor, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
  Friday, November 9, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Microsoft Studios Visit
  Sam Wolpert & Jimbo Pfeiffer, Microsoft Studios
  Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM, Stevenson 175
  
• A Definition of "Production"
  Isa Stamos
  Friday, November 16, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• Frontiers in CG Animation
  Lincoln Wallen, Chief Technology Officer, DreamWorks Animation
  Friday, November 30, 2012, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180 (The Simularium)
  
• CMPS 170 Game Design Final Year Studio Sequence Presentations
  Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Kresge Town Hall