Don Marinelli (Drama) Randy Pausch (CS)

1. Don Marinelli (Drama) Randy Pausch (CS) etc.cmu.edu (includes a list of all programs we have found)

2. Carnegie Mellon does real things

4. CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) • CMU = fine arts + technology (rare combo) • Two directors; one from CS, one from Drama • 2 year MET degree: Mastersof Entertainment Technology • Focus is on putting different kinds of people together

5. History • Drama Dept. External Advisory Board • Presidential Strategic Committee • ETC formed in November 1998 • Pilot class (8 students) • Started in Fall 1999 • Graduated in Spring 2001 • All Employed in the Industry • Our president calls the ETC Carnegie Mellon’s “New Jewel of the Crown”

6. Developing the Program • Met with industry representatives from ILM, PIXAR, WDI, Angel, EA, and others • Common theme: “We need people who can work effectively in an interdisciplinary production environment” • Biggest decision was to make it a 2-year program • (Easy) approval from College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science (jointly conferred)

7. Vision (prose) Leadership in education and research that combines technology and fine arts to create new processes, tools, and vision for storytelling and entertainment

8. Vision (schematic) Non- Technologists Technologists ETC Equal partners; neither sideis “in service of” the other

9. Vision (fun)

10. Our Faculty A.I. Improvisational Acting Computer Music Musician HCI Computer Graphics Omnimax Film Production Robotics Many others on project basis

11. Explicit Goals • Establish world leadership as researchers at the “lunatic fringe of new media content” • Produce graduates who pioneer new content • Create a shared culture where technology, fine arts, and other faculty and students mix • We focus on process and production

12. Our Students • Roughly half were CS or ECE undergrads • Other half Art, Drama, Design, Journalism • 30% women • 75% come straight from undergrad • Steady-state: admit 25/year, 50 in residence

13. ETC Curriculum: First Draft First Year Spring First Year Fall Project Course Project Course Optional Internship Second Year Spring Second Year Fall Project Course Project Course

14. ETC Curriculum First Year Spring First Year Fall Building Virtual Worlds Introduction to Entertainment Technology Art Survey OR Intro Programming Improvisational Acting ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course II Business School Course: Groups & Teams Elective Optional Internship Second Year Spring Second Year Fall ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course III Elective ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course IV Elective

15. ETC Curriculum First Year Spring First Year Fall Building Virtual Worlds Introduction to Entertainment Technology Art Survey OR Intro Programming Improvisational Acting ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course II Business School Course: Groups & Teams Elective Optional Internship Second Year Spring Second Year Fall ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course III Elective ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course IV Elective

16. Building Virtual Worlds • Randomly chosen small teams • Two weeks to design, implement, and test • Teams change per project • Five VR worlds during the semester

17. Building Virtual Worlds

18. A typical two week project…

19. ETC Curriculum First Year Spring First Year Fall Building Virtual Worlds Introduction to Entertainment Technology Art Survey OR Intro Programming Improvisational Acting ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course II Business School Course: Groups & Teams Elective Optional Internship Second Year Spring Second Year Fall ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course III Elective ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course IV Elective

20. ETC Curriculum First Year Spring First Year Fall Building Virtual Worlds Introduction to Entertainment Technology Art Survey OR Intro Programming Improvisational Acting ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course II Business School Course: Groups & Teams Elective Optional Internship Semester Co-Op Second Year Spring ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course III Elective ETC Interdisciplinary Project Course IV Elective

21. MusicIntroduction to Computing and Music Technology Electronic and Computer Music Sound Recording I & II • ArtElectronic Media Studio Advanced Electronic and Time-Based Work: 3D AnimationAdvanced Electronic and Time-Based Work: Robotic Art Studio • EnglishCulture Communication and Technology: Mapping the InternetSurvey of Forms: Screenwriting Writing in the Professions Designing Interactive Multimedia Writing for Multimedia Writing in Software Engineering Computers and Writing Writing for Multimedia On-line Information Design • PhilosophyIssues in Multimedia Authoring • PsychologyHuman Factors Visual Cognition Production Systems Models of Thought Cognitive Processes and Problem Solving Visual Perception • Public Policy & ManagementInternet and the Law • Courses at the Pittsburgh FilmmakersIntroduction to Screenwriting Script Analysis Lighting for Film & Video Film Editing Sound for Film Producing for Film & Television Animation Basics • c ETC Electives… • Computer ScienceArtificial Intelligence Computer Graphics I & II Media Technology Wearable Computers/Rapid Prototyping Physically-based modeling • RoboticsRobotic Art Studio • Electrical and Computer EngineeringDigital Signal ProcessingMultimedia Communications: Coding, Systems, and Networking Engineering and Public Policy Science Technology and Ethics • Mechanical EngineeringGeneral Robotics • DesignComputer Basics: Computer Design Seminar in HCI Design How People Work With Things • DramaFundamentals of Drama Sound I & II Acting for Non-Majors History of Architecture and Decor Fundamentals of Directing Camera Techniques Producing for Film & Television Development of Film Technique Screenwriting Introduction to Playwriting Advanced Playwriting Advanced Topics in Playwriting

22. Project Courses • Diverse, faculty-advised teams of students who create an artifact. Typically 4 or 5 students with one faculty: intense apprenticeship. • Some are be funded by and involve participants from industry or other outside organizations (gift + MOU)

23. Sponsors & Collaborators • Angel Studios • Actors Theater of Louisville/Humana Festival • ASE Engineering • Intel • Kodak • Microsoft Research • National Aviary • OPD • Right Hemisphere • Sorceron • Walt Disney Imagineering • Xulu Entertainment

24. Sample Student Projects…. • All projects described at etc.cmu.edu

25. Cretaceous Chaos

26. CyberSecurity

27. Synthetic Interviews for Workplace Training

28. Jam-O-Drum

29. Battle of the Elvi

30. Master Motion

31. Interactive Animatronics

32. Student Internships (summer or summer + fall co-op) • Angel Studios • DisneyQuest • Electronic Arts / Maxis (some with Will Wright) • Industrial Light & Magic • Institute for Creative Technology • Microsoft Research • Sorceron • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology • Walt Disney Imagineering (*)

33. Annual West Coast Field Trip • LA/San Diego • Angel Studios • Electronic Arts • Radium • Walt Disney Imagineering • Warner Brothers • Bay Area • ILM • PIXAR • Xulu • Zeum

34. 14 of our students are here at GDC… etc.cmu.edu