ETC Team Photos – Spring 2014
This is an unusually large semester for us in Silicon Valley. We have 28 students with us this semester, working on four teams of seven students each.
Fall 2013 ETC Team Photos
We have two teams this semester in Silicon Valley. Zimension Zimension is building a game on the zSpace platform that takes advantage of the unique aspects of the platform, like stereoscopic 3D, head tracking, and a 6DoF stylus with haptic feedback. Chimera Chimera is creating an iPad game for the Office [...]
Spring 2013 ETC Team Photos
We have a busy semester ahead with three projects and 21 students. Project Heidegger Project Heidegger is for EA's OCCO, the goal of which is to develop a system that identifies player types with the purpose of making recommendations to gamers accurately, unobtrusively, and with a high degree of personal specificity. Bravura Bravura [...]
Student Team Photos for Fall 2012
This semester we have twenty students working on three projects out here at the Silicon Valley campus of the ETC. I usually take team photos at the beginning and end of each semester. Here are this semester's opening shots. Xenon Team Xenon Team – The team is working on a project to visualize [...]
Spring 2012 ETC Students
This semester we have 17 students at ETC Silicon Valley, working on two teams. "Megalodon" is the largest team we've had yet, with 11 students on it. They are working on a project for Electronic Arts. Without giving away too much, they are developing a multiplayer game using an internally developed game engine at EA [...]
Dino Ignacio
Dino Ignacio of Visceral Games presenting to our ETC students. Dino Ignacio is Lead UI Designer at EA's Visceral Games. He gave a great presentation to our CMU ETC students about his work on Dead Space. The photo was shot with my Canon 430EX flash angled to bounce of the wall to the [...]
Fall 2011 ETC Student Team Photos
Each semester I take team photos of our students at the beginning and end of the term. It's fun to do, the students need the photos for their project websites, and there is always a fun creative challenge to do something that is relevant to their project. Five Sided Square "Five Sided Square" [...]
Vision and BHAGs
In the class I’m teaching at CMU on entrepreneurship we talked about setting a long term vision for your company. I used Jim Collin’s research as a framework for the discussion, in particular setting a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) and having a vivid description of what life will be like when that goal is [...]
Ovo at Cirque du Soleil
Le Ovo We took a fieldtrip with our students to see Cirque du Soliel's Ovo in San Jose. The show was entertaining, creepy, and wondrous all wrapped up into a big egg. I took this photo while people were entering and finding their seats, and right before one of the ushers told me [...]
ETC Team Photos for Spring ’10
Team photos for our five student teams from the ETC. You can learn more about the projects at our ETC Silicon Valley blog. These are fun to take - there's a wonderful challenge in trying to convey something about the students and their project. PlayOnSocial - Creating a social media game for NHN in [...]