Agenda

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) Conference Center 10:30pm Multi-core CPUs and Computer Science Education Justin Boggs (AMD) Conference Center

Saturday, February 24 2007 - Castaway Cay, Bahamas

Time Session Location/Notes 7:00am Early Bird Breakfast Goofy’s Gallery (Deck 9, Aft) 8:00am Academic Papers Four 30 minute talks Animator’s Palate Dining Room – Deck 4 Aft 8:00am Academic Papers Four 30 minute talks Diversions – Deck 3 8:00am Game Programming for Introductory Computer Science Jon Schwartz (Phrogram) Conference Center 9:00am Game Programming for Introductory Computer Science Education State-of-the-Art Real-Time Rendering Effects on the GPU Chas Boyd, Windows Experience Group, Microsoft Conference Center 10:00am BREAK 10:15am Academic Papers Four 30 minute talks Diversions 10:15am Academic Papers Four 30 minute talks Animator’s Palate 10:15am The Illusion of life revisited Ken Perlin, Director, NYU Media Research Lab Conference Center 12:15pm Lunch or Disembark to Castaway Cay Parrot’s Café (Deck 3, Aft) 12:30pm Networking on Castaway Cay 4.25 hours on shore Heads Up Bar 3:30pm Last call before Bar closes Heads Up Bar 5:00pm All Aboard by 4:30 pm Ship Departs 7:00pm Conference Closing Reception Studio Sea (Deck 4, Midship) 8:00pm Dinner Parrot Cay (Deck 3, Aft) 9:30pm Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Extending the Platform for Academia Michael Zyskowski Conference Center - Fantasia, Steamboat Willie 10:30pm Intro to XNA and the Microsoft Campus Connections Program Russ Fustino (Microsoft) Conference Center - Fantasia, Steamboat Willie

Sunday, February 25 2007 - Port Canaveral

Time Session Location/Notes 7:00am Dock 7:00am Breakfast Parrot Cay (Deck 3, Aft) 8:00am Board buses for transfer to Orlando airport Debarkation

Session Details

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The Impact of Game Development in the Undergraduate Curriculum
Author: Jim Parker

Games and simulations and the future of engineering: Engaging high school students in global challenge
Authors: David Gibson, Domenico Grasso, Josh Bongard

Design of Prototypes in a Game Development Curriculum
Author: Deborah Warren

Using Interactive Graphics to Teach Programming to Middle School Girls
Author: Helen Hu

Camera-Projector-Based Interactive Game Development in an IT Course
Author: Andy Wang

Integrating Video Games into CS1
Author: Jam Jenkins

By students, for students: a production-quality multimedia library and its application to game-based
Author: Bertrand Meyer

Student Composers and Sound Designers in the Context of a Game Design Course
Author: Teresa Marrin Nakra

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Track title: Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Combining games with theatre to create an interdisciplinary learning experience for Computer Science
Authors: Joe Geigel, Marla Schweppe

Teaching Game Design through Cross-Disciplinary Content and Individualized Student Deliverables
Authors: Ursula Wolz, Christopher Ault, Teresa Marrin Nakra

A Tale of Two Classes: On Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Games Education
Authors: Arnav Jhala, Michael Young, Timothy Buie

ARTS Lab and Game Technology
Authors: Edward Angel, Thomas Caudell, Eric Whitmore

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Game development classes

Interweaving Game Design into Core CS Curriculum
Authors: Bruce Gooch, Amy Gooch, Yolanda Rankin

Integrating Video Game Development Experience in an Academic Framework
Authors: Bernard Yee, David Sturman, Steven Feiner

Games in capstone classes

Agent Augmented Game Development
Authors: Zhiqi Shen, Chunyan Miao, Yundong Cai

Teaching Revulsion-Free Design Patterns through Game Development
Author: Randy Connolly

Reaching out to the community

Creativity in the Cane Fields: Motivating and Engaging IT Students Through Games
Author: Colin Lemmon

A Soft Approach to Computer Science: Designing & Developing Computer Games for and with Senior
Author: Citiz Jelle Husson

Middle-to-High School Girls as Game Designers – What are the Implications?
Authors: Magy Seif El-Nasr, Ibrahim Yucel, Joseph Zupko, et al.

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Games in traditional CS classes

The Effects of Games in CS1-3
Author: Jessica Bayliss

XYZZY: Finding New Magic in Text Adventure Games
Author: Brian Ladd

Using XNA-GSE game segments to Engage Students in Advanced Computer Science Education
Author: G. Michael Youngblood

Using a simple MMORPG to teach multi-user, client-server database development
Authors: Greg Wadley, Jason Sobell

Game degrees and concentrations

Educating Game Programmers
Author: Timothy Roden

Design Issues for Undergraduate Game-Oriented Degrees Authors: Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas

Infrastructure

SAGE: A Simple Academic Game Engine
Authors: Ian Parberry, Jeremiah Nunn, Joseph Scheinberg, Erik Carson, Jason Cole

Designing Shape-shifting Collaborative Laboratory Spaces to Facilitate Game-Design Education
Author: David Schwartz

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