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Now Hiring: Digital Arts Technologist at UC Santa Cruz

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: March 14, 2013

The University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring a new Technical Coordinator for the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program. This is someone who works full time helping students and faculty do interesting projects, thinks about the future technical direction of the program (and has a budget to purchase technical items worth investigating), […]

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New Game Degree and Job at UC Santa Cruz

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: February 26, 2013

At UC Santa Cruz we are about to launch (pending final approvals) a new year-long (12 month) MS degree focused on combining technical and design innovation — to create novel possibilities for the games of today, to enable new types of games, and to explore a wide variety of next-generation playable experiences. The degree will […]

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UC Santa Cruz seeks game developer and game designer staff

By Jim Whitehead | Published: October 19, 2012

The Univ. of California, Santa Cruz is seeking applicants for two new full time staff positions, a Lead Game Programmer and a Lead Game Designer to work with myself, Michael Mateas, and Luca de Alfaro in support of the CHEKOFV project. CHEKOFV (Crowd-sourced Help with Emergent Knowledge for Optimized Formal Verification) is a research effort […]

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UCSC Computer Science Hiring Faculty Member in Games and Playable Media

By Michael Mateas | Published: October 4, 2012

The Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for a tenure track (Assistant) or tenured (Associate and Full Professor) faculty position. We seek outstanding applicants in the area of games and playable media. Preferred applicants will have research and teaching experience in games and graphics, with a research presence […]

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Media Systems — A glimpse of the future?

By Noah Wardrip-Fruin | Published: August 22, 2012

Next week, among the redwoods of the UC Santa Cruz campus, we will host the Media Systems gathering. It will be the first joint activity of the NSF, NEH, and NEA — and we are also sponsored by both Microsoft Studios and Microsoft Research. Some might wonder what such disparate funders, not to mention the […]

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Now Hiring: Game Designer in Residence

By Jim Whitehead | Published: July 19, 2012

The Center for Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz is in search of a talented game designer with a portfolio of interesting games for a new position, the Game Designer in Residence. Like an Artist in Residence, the game designer will continue to work on personal projects as well as contribute to the […]

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