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Josh McCoy

Josh is a Ph.D. student at the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz. His research features using AI to enable playable social spaces. The project embodying this work is known as The Prom or Promacolypse.

Vote Prom Week for the IGF Audience Choice Award!

By Josh McCoy | Published: February 6, 2012

It is our pleasure to present Prom Week’s Audience Choice Special Release! Please enjoy playing this version of Prom Week — we would very much appreciate your vote in the 2012 Independent Games Festival Games: Main Competition Audience Award.

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Ken Perlin visits UCSC

By Josh McCoy | Published: March 15, 2010

Ken Perlin, Professor of Computer Science, New York University Ken is giving a talk titled: “Graphics, Games, Characters and Touchpads — a tour of recent research” Date: Tuesday, March 16 Time: 11:00am Place: E2-180 (The Simularium) Abstract This talk will provide an overview of various recent research,mincluding Games for Learning, pressure sensitive touch devices, emotively […]

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EIS Research Demos at GDC

By Josh McCoy | Published: March 11, 2010

The CNET News article, GDC: What’s next for video game AI?, features demos of EIS research projects delivered at the AI Summit at GDC along with the latest AI demos from Richard Evans and Ian Holmes. The AI Summit session, Experimental Game AI: Live Demos of Innovation, included demos of EIS’s Starcraft agent and The Prom, […]

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