0 0 0 0 MS Academic Days - https://www.msadgd07.net/Agenda.aspx - days 1&2 Agenda Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development in Computer Science Education February 22 - 25, 2007 Aboard the Disney Wonder Cruise Ship Thursday, February 22 2007 - Disney Coronado Springs Resort Time Session Location/Notes 6:00am Check out of hotel and leave luggage in room for porter pickup and transport to ship Luggage tagged and transported direct to ship Front Desk 6:30am Breakfast & Registration Courtyard 8:00am XNA and Academia: Turning consumers into creators Chris Satchell – GM, US Game Developer Group, Microsoft Durango 1&2 9:00am Games, Gender and Why It Matters Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College Durango 1&2 10:00am BREAK 10:30am Collapsing Geography: Learning and Innovation in Digital Worlds Cory Ondrejka, CTO, Linden Lab Durango 1&2 11:30am Game Design: Challenges, Skills, Opportunities, and Reality Robin Hunicke, Designer, Electronic Arts Durango 1&2 12:30pm BREAK – Pick up Snack Box A complete buffet lunch will be available onboard the Disney Wonder in the Beach Blanke Buffet , deck 9, until 3:30 pm. 1:00pm Board Motor Coach Bus for 1 hour trip to Port Canaveral Depart for ship 2:45pm Embarkation Port Canaveral 4:00pm Life Boat Drill (Mandatory) Muster Stations 7:00pm Poster Presentations Reception with light refreshments Conference Center - Fantasia, Peter Pan, Steamboat Willie (Deck 2) 8:00pm Dinner Triton’s (Deck 3, Midship) 9:30pm Living the Dream Colleen McCreary (Electronic Arts) Conference Center - Fantasia, Steamboat Willie 10:30pm Assessment: How to Find Out if What You’re Teaching Is What They’re Learning Jamie Cromack (Microsoft Research) Conference Center - Fantasia, Steamboat Willie Friday, February 23 2007 - Nassau, Bahamas Time Session Location/Notes 7:00am Early Bird Breakfast Goofy’s Gallery (Deck 9, Aft) 8:00am Next Generation Game Developers Michael Capps President, Epic Games Walt Disney Theater 9:00am Ender’s Game for Science and Engineering: Games for Real, for Now, or we Lose the Brain War Merrilea J. Mayo Director, GUIRR, The National Academies Walt Disney Theater 10:15am Introduction to Direct3D 10 Michael V. Oneppo Microsoft Windows Group Buena Vista Theater (Deck 5, Aft) 11:15am XNA and Academia: A Partnership for the Next Generation Dave Mitchell Director, US Game Developer Group, Microsoft Buena Vista Theater (Deck 5, Aft) 12:30pm Lunch Beach Blanket Buffet 2:00pm Academic Papers Four 30 minute talks Studio Sea - Deck 4, Midship 2:00pm Stories to Share: 5 years of Serious Games Advocacy Ben Sawyer President of Digitalmill and co-founder of The Serious Games Initiative Conference Center -- Fantasia, Steamboat Willie 3:00pm Musings on Game Dev Curriculums: An Insider View Matt Lee, Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Game Technology Group Conference Center -- Fantasia, Steamboat Willie 4:00pm Nassau 3 hours on shore Disembark 6:15pm Pre-Dinner Show Walt Disney Theater (Deck 4) 7:30pm All Onboard by 7 pm Ship Departs 8:00pm Dinner Animator’s Palate (Deck 4, Aft) 9:30pm Torque X Game Development for XNA Davey Jackson (Garage Games) Josh Williams, CEO / CTO, (Garage Games) Conference Center 10:30pm Multi-core CPUs and Computer Science Education Justin Boggs (AMD) Conference Center