GamePipe News & Events
Viterbi Game Day Builds USC Stature as National Center for Interactive Arts
December 21, 2007, Viterbi Newswire
The growing sophistication of the games development and education program at USC was evident in a morning in which students and faculty from three schools - the Viterbi School of Engineering, the Roski School of Fine Arts and the School of Cinematic Arts - presented a glittering lineup new ideas. GamePipe Executive Director Mike Zyda described the event. "Demo Day serves as a checkpoint for student progress in the games program. Students present their semester's work to representatives from the game industry, with the hope that their work will attract the eye of industry for an internship or position upon graduation. (more)
Creating video games - in class
December 05, 2007, The Daily Pennsylvanian
Univ .of Pennsylvania — Video games and homework aren't always mutually exclusive. One-hundred-fifty students at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering took an innovative new class on video games this semester, playing them on various consoles designed to provide students with a technical and historical foundation for games. The course is one of the school's core classes in the Games specialty of its Computer Science degree. Michael Zyda, creator and Director of the USC GamePipe Laboratory for game development spoke at Penn yesterday. He discussed his mission to reinvigorate computer science ....(more)