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For Immediate Release:

Carnegie Mellon Offers New "Masters of Entertainment Technology " Degree Applications Due: March 15, 2000 More Information at: http://etc.cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon University's new Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) has established a two-year Masters of Entertainment Technology degree, jointly offered by the College of Fine Arts and the School of Computer Science. The ETC program focuses on creating new processes, tools and visions for storytelling and entertainment.

The ETC is headed by two co-directors: Don Marinelli, Professor in the School of Drama, and Randy Pausch, Professor of Computer Science and HCI. "Our masters in entertainment technology addresses the issues inherent in the new interactive media that are driving the entertainment industry," says Pausch. Specifically, how we share control of an experience between the ahead-of-time authors and the audience/user/guest/player is an intellectually deep question." Marinelli adds, "The interdisciplinary nature of this degree is what makes it so daring and innovative. We want to take the creativity of the arts and fuse it with the technologists who are making new media forms."

Students enrolled in the program will be immersed in a cutting edge, collaborative environment and will work in areas that include virtual reality, location-based entertainment, entertainment-based e-commerce, theme park design, digital animation, CD- and DVD-ROM, authoring, video games and robotics.

The ETC will admit a mix of students so that each incoming class will be roughly half technologists and half artists. Says Pausch, "We are looking for students who are very good at something--anything from computer programming to theater lighting to clay sculpting to digital animation." The curriculum includes internship potentials with a variety of entertainment companies such as Walt Disney Imagineering, Industrial Light and Magic, Dreamworks Interactive, Microsoft, and Kodak, among others.

More information and application materials are available at

http://www.etc.cmu.edu

--------------------------------------- Randy Pausch, pausch@cs.cmu.edu, http://www.randypausch.com/ Associate Professor of HCI, Computer Science, and Design School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3891 voice=412/268-3579, fax=(801) 991-9434 ---------------------------------------