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Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a Professor of Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz and the author of Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies.

How Pac-Man Eats: Who is it for?

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: December 2, 2020

The first reviews have arrived for my new book, How Pac-Man Eats! I’m honored to have people giving the book careful attention. This book is aimed at a wide range of audiences (designers, journalists, technologists, scholars, students, and people who are simply interested in games) and aims to speak to multiple disciplines. Given that, it’s […]

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New Computational Media M.S. and Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: November 4, 2016

Computational Media is all around us — video games, social media, interactive narrative, smartphone apps, computer-generated films, personalized health coaching, and more. To create these kinds of media, to deeply understand them, to push them forward in novel directions, requires a new kind of interdisciplinary thinker and maker. The new graduate degrees in Computational Media […]

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Two more faculty jobs at UC Santa Cruz

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: January 29, 2016

UC Santa Cruz has two more faculty jobs in games and computational media. One is an Assistant Professor in game design (apply by February 1st) and the other is a Teaching Professor position in computational media available for applicants at any level of seniority, and open to a wide range of specialties (apply by February […]

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Four Jobs at UC Santa Cruz

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: October 27, 2015

I’m happy to announce that UC Santa Cruz is currently searching for four jobs in areas of computational media (and we expect to announce two more soon). Two of the currently-advertised positions are in Engineering and two are in Arts.

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Seeking Program Director for Professional Games MS

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: June 29, 2015

Interested in working on innovative games, with passionate people, in an academic position in Silicon Valley? We’re seeking a leader for the UC Santa Cruz professional MS in Games and Playable Media. The MS is offered through our Silicon Valley campus, now expanding into a new building (with about 5000 sq ft dedicated to the […]

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Curing Games’ Amnesia with NLP

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: June 24, 2015

Video game playing is plagued by amnesia. One reason is that there are no good tools for finding related video games across time. Everything is focused on the present or future. Yet if you are fascinated by a certain game, the best next games to investigate are not necessarily the other ones featured in Amazon’s […]

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