NEWS

50th Alumnus in the Game Industry (Posted 4/6/2009) With the news this month that Christopher Jantze landed a game programming job at Zynga developing games for Facebook and Myspace, LARC now has had 50 alumni get jobs in the game industry. Graduate Game Programming Class Approved by COE (Posted 3/28/2009) The Graduate Curriculum Committee of UNT's College of Engineering approved a new graduate level class on Advanced Topics in Game Development, which must now go up to the University level Graduate Curriculum Committee. Graduate Track in Game Programming Approved (Posted 2/25/2009) The Graduate Committee of UNT's Department of Computer Science & Engineering approved a Master's level track in game programming. Details of the track are available on the department's web page. The committee also approved a new graduate level class on Advanced Topics in Game Development, which must now go up to the College of Engineering Graduate Curriculum Committee. Ian Parberry Named MVP (Posted 2/13/2009) Ian Parberry was named a Most Valuable Professional by Microsoft Corporation for the 6th consecutive year. Ian Parberry Named Associate Editor (Posted 2/2/2009) LARC Director Ian Parberry was recently named Associate Editor of two new academic journals, Entertainment Computing and IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games.