Before It's Too Late: Preserving Games across the Industry / Academia divide

It’s Childs play - The Games Software Industry in Ireland

Over the last decade, Ireland has become one of the largest exporters of computer software in the world. However, the games software development sector has received little attention from industrial development agencies, academia and financiers until recently, despite the global games software industry market being worth an estimated €16bn in 2001 and being projected to grow by over 70% by 2007 ...

Training translators for smart drug discovery.

To achieve advances in clinical medicine, we need investigators with a sophisticated understanding of medicine and pharmacology who are capable of projecting their preclinical research across the translational divide. Such expertise in translational medicine and therapeutics has become scant in academia, industry, and regulatory bodies. Here we discuss strategies for addressing this deficit in ...

A Review of Real-Time Strategy Game AI

This literature review covers AI techniques used for real-time strategy video games, focusing specifically on StarCraft. It finds that the main areas of current academic research are in tactical and strategic decision-making, plan recognition, and learning, and it outlines the research contributions in each of these areas. The paper then contrasts the use of game AI in academia and industry, fi...

Cutting Edges in Strange Places: New media debates and the computer and video games industry in the UK

During the late 1990s, ‘new media’ has increasingly been targeted by policy makers at all levels for its potential as a new growth industry. Until now, most of our understanding of new media has been drawn from (largely) industry-driven technoevangelising, and from studies of particular geographical clusters, derived from new institutional economics. The validity of these approaches is examined...

An Industry/Academia Research Network on Artificial Intelligence and Games Technologies