University Project: Wednesday, February 8 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Session II: Research, Development and Investment in Entertainment Technologies and Media Studies Innovation: From the University to Industry Application Mike Uretsky, co-director, NYU Center for Advanced Technology Jessica Trybus, Edutainment Director, Carnegie Mellon University Dennis Anderson, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Ivan G. Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace University Chris Aliberto, Director, Newhouse Information and Computing Services, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University Bruce Lincoln, Founder/ Chief Design Scientist, Urban Cyberspace Company, former, Senior Educational Technologist, Teachers College, Columbia University Dr. David B. Smith, Chair, Entertainment Technology Department, NYC College of Technology, CUNY Moderator: Martin Perlmutter, Executive Producer, META-4 Jessica Trybus, Edutainment Director, Carnegie Mellon University: Jessica is the Director of Edutainment for Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). Her job is to ensure that the ETC lead the way in the burgeoning concept of "edutainment" - or creating applications that simultaneously instruct and entertain. To that end, Jessica has recently been responsible for major interactive museum exhibits and "games-to-train" projects. Jessica is also working on how to leverage the cutting-edge technology design capabilities of the ETC to jump start business growth and job creation in Pennsylvania for interactive entertainment technologies. To support such growth, Jessica has spun a company from the ETC, called Etcetera Edutainment. Jessica is a Pittsburgh native, and a 2004 graduate of the Entertainment Technology Center. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon for graduate school, Jessica held marketing, business development and project management positions with Viacom and AltaVista. She also worked as an assistant within Drew Barrymore's production company, Flower Films. Jessica received her B.A. from Cornell University. Dennis Anderson is associate dean of Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems and director of the university's Center for Advanced Media (CAM), which conducts research, education and training in the area of multimedia technologies. The center's work focuses on e-business, web development and web design and spans the spectrum from art to high technology. The center partners with companies in greater New York. He also directs the Laboratory for Undergraduate Research and Collaborative Computing (URCC). Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Columbia University. He also received an Ed.M. in Instructional Technology and Media from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition, Dr. Anderson holds an M.S. in Computer Science from New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He also completed an executive-education program in E-Commerce at Columbia University's School of Business and a professional program in multimedia at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005, he attended Harvard University's Institute for Management and Leadership in Education Program. Dr. Anderson has presented at numerous international conferences in the areas of computer science, information systems, and distance and mathematics education. His research interests lie in the history of computing and information technology, information policy, global digital divide, human-computer interaction, multimedia, programming languages, operating systems, artificial intelligence, computer science, mathematics and distance education, new-media technologies and e-commerce. He has received numerous grants including National Science Foundation grants [NSF-Pace CSEMS, Internet 2/REU & U.S. Department of Energy FaST, Formal Methods Education]. He has served as a reviewer/referee for numerous grants, fellowships, and publications (ACM Computing Reviews). Dr. Anderson has been named to the roster of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board's Fulbright Senior Specialist (2002-2006) program as an expert in information technology. He has served as a member of several advisory boards of organizations and conference boards including Microsoft Faculty Advisory Board, ACM Computers in Entertainment Editorial Board, Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, CIO Executive Programs (CXO Media Inc.), Computerworld, NYC Department of Education’s Academy of IT, ISACA Education Board, PC EXPO/TECHXNY 2002 Conference, Columbia University-Teachers College, Pace University's Center for Downtown New York (CDNY), MIS2002 Conference, Pace Poll, Pace University Research Council, AMCIS 2004 (Program Guide Chair) and the International Conference on E-Banking and Global Marketplace 2003 (Conference Chairman). He has served as a competition judge for the New York City Science and Engineering Fair and the Advanced Media Technology Emmy Awards and a reviewer for the New York State Education Department's Institutional Accreditation. He also belongs to professional groups including the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE-Computer Society, Association for Information Systems, New York Academy of Sciences, New York New Media Association, Society for Information Management, American Society for Engineering Education and Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. In 2004, he was appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, in Graz, Austria. Recently, he was also a Visiting Professor at the Université de Mons-Hainaut’s Waroque Business School, Belgium, where he gave lectures on e-commerce and emerging technologies. Bruce Lincoln is an educational technologist, a design scientist and a multimedia designer/developer. From 1994 until 2004, Bruce was the Senior Educational Technologist and Manager of Community Outreach at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College, Columbia University where he managed the Harlem Environmental Access Project (1994-96), The Eiffel Project (1996-2001), The Harlem Renaissance 2001 Project (1999-2001), The SmartForce E-Learning Digital Scholarship Fund (2000-2002), The New York Online Neighborhood Educational Network Project (2000-2003), and culminating in the New York City Community Technology Center Bank Project (2001-2004). Bruce has raised more than $13 million for the internetworking and support of a consortium that has at one time or another included over 30 schools, 20 community-based and cultural organizations, a number of for-profit technology service providers, and now under the umbrella of the NYC CTC Bank more than 136 community technology centers. Through the New York City Community Technology Center Bank, Bruce developed a project that would deploy a wireless, broadband network which would turn a community technology center, or a community-based organization or a school into a neighborhood ISP providing each organization access to a for-profit portal which would allow for revenue generation and sharing as a means to achieve self-sufficiency for each particular organization. The project will be piloted in Washington Heights, Central and East Harlem, and in Chinatown. Bruce also runs two virtual companies: Sirius B Productions, Inc. founded in 1988 and the Urban Cyberspace Company founded in 1994. Sirius B Productions, Inc. is an advanced multimedia research and development company that from 1989 to 1991 designed and produced the Black Inventors Continuum, an interactive multimedia software product on the contributions of African-American inventors to world science, industry and technology. Urban Cyberspace is a design think tank and consulting/marketing firm specializing in broadband Internet technologies. Under the umbrella of Urban Cyberspace, Bruce was responsible for the design of 1400on5th.com, the first smart and green building to be built in Harlem. 1400on5th.com was open for occupancy on October 8th, 2004. Bruce is also the Project Director of HarlemRobotics.org, a joint collaboration of the Harlem YMCA, the US FIRST Robotics Foundation and the NY/NJ FIRST Robotics Foundation. Harlem Robotics excites urban youth about the science and technology of robotics by mounting competitive robotics teams which compete at a regional competition held at Riverbank State Park. Bruce is the Robotics Technology Instructor at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Astrophysics Outreach and Enrichment Program. From 1993-1995, Bruce was an adjunct professor at NYU’s Book Publishing Institute where he taught a popular course on the future of electronic publishing. Martin Perlmutter, Executive Producer, META-4: Interactive video and multimedia pioneer, Marty Perlmutter has been a producer of award-winning instructional, edutainment and game content for three decades. Perlmutter has consulted to key players at all points of the Convergence compass - telecom, computing, content development - and has a professional network that spans four continents. Perlmutter is widely published, has been a frequent keynoter at new media conferences, helped found and run the San Francisco Multimedia Development Group trade association, and is currently producing broadband content for AOL and learning software for non-profit distribution. Dr. David B. Smith is the Chair of the Entertainment Technology Department at NYC College of Technology, where he is an Associate Professor specializing in sound and music technology. He was instrumental in the department’s award of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant of $780,000 for the acquisition of new equipment, and has taught at the college since 1997. As a composer, sound designer, inventor, and musician, Dr. Smith has been active in the professional world since the early eighties. He has performed as a violinist in ensembles ranging from symphony orchestras to rock bands, both live and in the studio. His compositions, written in an equally eclectic variety of genres, have been heard across the country. As a sound designer, Dr Smith has designed for over one-hundred and fifty productions in venues of all sizes. He was resident Composer/Sound Designer at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park for eight years. Dr. Smith is recognized as one of the world leaders in the development of live performance computer instrument systems. Partnering with Dr. Frederick Bianchi (currently at Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Dr. Smith created the first virtual orchestra system in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late eighties. This was quickly followed by several professional productions, including a critically acclaimed Wizard of Oz at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and the world’s first virtual orchestra presentation in professional opera: Hansel und Gretel, at Kentucky Opera, in 1990. Further research in this area lead to a collaborative experiment in live gestural control of virtual orchestra systems with Lucent Technologies. The results of this were showcased at Telecom ’99 in Geneva Switzerland, with a 320-speaker immersive environment used in conjunction with a performance of Natalie Cole, Sir John Barry, and the l’Orchestre du Suisse Romande. Recognizing a need in contemporary performance venues, Dr’s Smith and Bianchi teamed with Mr. Jeffrey Lazarus to found Realtime Music Solutions (RMS). This company is devoted to the development of new musical instruments that increase the efficiency of musical pit orchestra performance without sacrifice of musicality and expression. As Director of Research and Development at RMS, he has been instrumental in the creation of the Sinfonia orchestral enhancement instrument. He has overseen its implementation in over thirty-five productions, including fourteen national tours, London’s West End, and Cirque du Soleile. He holds both US and British patents in music performance systems. Working in collaboration with Opera Company of Brooklyn, Dr. Smith created two highly controversial productions of Mozart operas. The first, die Zauberflöt, used Sinfonia in conjunction with an immersive array of loudspeakers to simulate an orchestra. This production also demonstrated proof of concept with metric control of external visual elements. This has led to current research in tighter metric integration along with co-researcher Professor John Huntington, also at NYC College of Technology. Dr. Smith makes his home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with wife Lori and daughter Eliana.