Workshop - The University Project - Limited Attendance
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Track I:
"Research, Development and Investment in Entertainment Technologies and Media Studies Innovation: From the University to Industry Application"
Dana Plautz, Chair Art and Entertainment Research Council Committee, Intel Research
Kenn Heller, Associate Director of UCLA's Center for Student Programming
Janet Pearce Stenzel, Director, Mobile Media Institute, USC
Charles Swartz, CEO, USC Entertainment Technology Center
Scott LeGrand, NVidia
Newton Lee, Senior Producer, Disney Online, and Editor-in-Chief, ACM Computers in Entertainment, Moderator
Dana Plautz, Chair Art and Entertainment Research Council Committe
e, Intel Research: After 10 years in the entertainment industry (holding senior posts at Norman Lear's Embassy Communications and Hanna-Barbera Productions), Plautz joined Intel's multimedia lab in 1993. Currently, she chairs the Art and Entertainment Committee for the Intel Research Council and is also the manager of the Research Communications team for Intel Research. Plautz serves on the board of directors of Eyebeam, a non-profit organization that engages cultural dialogue at the intersection of the arts and sciences, she is a member of the Beall Center´s Curatorial Review Committee, the Banff Centre New Media Advisory Board, Cal Arts Center for Integrated Media's board of advisors and a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and a judge for the 9th Annual Webby Awards in the Entertainment cluster. She is also a member of Art Table. She held a government appointment as Chairman for the Oregon Film and Video Office from 1998-2004, served on the California College Arts and Craft (CCAC) Design + Media Advisory Board, and Portland State Universities Creative Studies Initiative. Plautz also produced the award winning documentary Artist Response to 9.11, discussing artist's role in our society. Plautz lectures frequently on the subject of new media around the country. She is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College.Janet Pearce Stenzel, Director, Mobile Media Institute @USC: Ms. Stenzel joined USC as a visiting fellow at the Center for Telecom Management in 2002 when she founded the Southern California Roundtable on Mobile Commerce. In 2004 she helped to launch a multi-disciplinary collaboration (six school and six industry supported centers) under the auspices of the Provost at USC. This Mobile Media Institute is a focus of collaboration research and analysis between academic, industry, and government offices interested in promoting un-tethered engagement in various entertainment, medical, defense, education, community-building, and information processing venues. Prior to launching the Programmes at USC Ms Stenzel created ICM Insights as a business strategy, marketing, and government affairs management service. The ground was laid for this endeavor through her position as Executive Director of the PECC Telecom, Media, and IT Offices. In the context of this office Ms. Stenzel managed the government, industry, and academic collaborations of twenty-five economies committed to business and regulatory advancement in the Asia-Pacific region. In-line with her professional activities in the Asia-Pacific Ms. Stenzel serves on numerous boards. Among these are the International Advisory Group to the PECC, the Steering Committee of the ITU Center for Excellence in Asia, the board of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, and as chair of the board of the Pacific Alliance for use of IT in Education and Training (EduPACT). Ms Stenzel has been honored in a number of Fora for her work in the promotion of IT literacy and skills development, inter-governmental agreements, and multi-media collaborations. Prior professional work includes positions at Bell Atlantic, Burson Marsteller, Newsweek, and the Economic Strategy Institute
Kenn Heller, Associate Director of UCLA's Center for Student Programming: Currently serving as Associate Director of the UCLA Center for Student Programming and as Assistant Dean of Students, Kenn spends most of his time dealing with the use and abuse of technology for students and student organizations at UCLA. As the co-web master of the student groups web site that houses over 300 campus sites, Kenn served on the development team responsible for UCLA’s file sharing response system, which cuts off network access to students having been identified for illegal file sharing. In his role as Assistant Dean of Students, he is the primary contact and disciplinarian for return offenders. In his role as Associate Director, he was responsible for the development UCLA’s Corporate Sponsorship policy and the ongoing interaction with those concerns interested in finding a way to cooperative market to the UCLA community via events. During the course of his 28 years at UCLA, Kenn has also served as a consultant to many entertainment concerns interested in the college age, young adult market, focused on wanting to deliver live and digital content to students. For 17 years he served as a partner in the production company of Kramer, Heller, and King, producing over 150 concerts on the Santa Monica Pier. Kenn is married and has two children and lives in North Hollywood, CA.
Newton Lee is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) Computers in Entertainment magazine, a senior producer at Disney Online, an adjunct faculty member at Woodbury University, and a former Bell Labs researcher. Lee founded the Disney Online Technology Forums and has developed over 100 games and activities since 1996 for award-winning web sites Disney.com and Disney's Blast, as well as enhanced-TV programs for ABC's "Summer Jam Concert" and Disney Channel's "In Concert." A pioneer on CD-ROM development, Lee created one of the first object-oriented scripting languages and cross-platform multimedia compilers for interactive CD-ROMs. He co-developed 11 CD-ROM titles including the award-winning bestsellers "The Lion King Animated Storybook" and "Lamp Chop Loves Music." He and his colleagues received the 1995 Michigan's Leading Edge Technologies Award. Lee has served as a juror for the 2003 Emmy Awards for Advanced Media Technology. He has won two community development awards from the California Junior Chamber of Commerce, and four Disney VoluntEARS project leader awards. He has published two novels, a book chapter in "Machine Learning and Uncertain Reasoning" (Academic Press 1990), and dozens of research papers on software applications in medical science, national security, quality control, telecommunication, library science, and new media. Lee holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Virginia Tech, an electrical engineering degree and honorary doctorate from Vincennes University. His graduate thesis won an ACM award and led to the creation of the first commercial A.I. product from AT&T Bell Labs. He currently serves on the Strategic Advisory Council at the Virginia Tech Computer Science Department, the Multimedia/Web Design Advisory Board of the Art Institute of California, the IMSC Board of Councilors at USC, the WINMEC Media, Entertainment, Sport, and Games Advisory Board at UCLA, and the Beijing Multimedia Industry Association Advisory Board.