COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
BOSTON UNIVERSITY METROPOLITAN COLLEGE
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

You are cordially invited to the lecture by Dr. Ian Davis
on Wednesday, November 28. at 6 pm,
Room 208, Boston University School of Management Building, 
595 Commonwealth Avenue.
(Admission is free and parking is available beneath the building)

The talk inaugurates our new Graduate Certificate in Interactive Multimedia and Game Engineering

Artificial Intelligence in Video Games

By Dr. Ian Lane Davis
CEO and Founder, Mad Doc Software

Ian Davis is widely acknowledged as one of the top Artificial Intelligence experts in the video game industry. His direct game credits include: Empire Earth® II, a PC Gamer Editor's Choice award winner garnering a 94% review score, (2005), Vivendi Universal Games; Dungeon Siege®: Legends of Aranna™, an Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences "Computer Role Playing Game of the Year" finalist (2003), Microsoft Game Studios; Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest (2002), Sierra Entertainment; Jane's® Attack Squadron (2002), Xicat Interactive; and for Activision Publishing Inc., Star Trek®: Armada II™ (2001), Call to Power II (2000), Star Trek®: Armada™ (2000), Civilization®: Call to Power™ (1999), Battlezone® (1998), Dark Reign: Rise of the Shadowhand™ (1998), and Dark Reign: The Future of War™ (1997).

Active in the game community, Dr. Davis serves as a Peer Panel Leader for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Peer Panel for Gameplay Engineering and is a trusted advisor to key industry publishers. Currently authoring a definitive AI and games textbook for academic and industry training along with top AI researchers, he has taught “Characters in Video Games,”at MIT. Dr. Davis was recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Game Development.

Ian earned his doctorate in AI and Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.  In 1999 he founded Mad Doc® with the goal of developing Triple A titles that “expand the game playing experience and broaden the market through creative use of new Networking, Graphics, and AItechnologies” (Empire Earth® II uses Mad Doc's Mad3D™ Game Engine and MadAPM technologies). Mad Doc has quickly become an emerging force in the industry and Ian was named the 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. The Mad Doc team consists of industry veterans with experience in every aspect of gamedevelopment and an exceptional expertise in artificial Intelligence. Mad Doc team members are collectively responsible for over 10 million units in the game market worldwide.  

Host: Professor Eric Braude

For more information, email videogames@bu.edu, or call (617) 353-2566.

 

Update: The video is now online at BUniverse.