In the Lab
Games in Engineering: Research Grand Challenges
February 22, 2013Join us for this panel discussion with experts in the field, Katherine Isbister, Michael Mateas and Anrew Nealen, moderated by Alex Pasternack. It's happening on March 14, 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm at the Game Innovation Lab…. Read More…
Beautiful Spread about GIL in latest issue of ACM’s Interactions
September 12, 2012ACM did a great interview with our director about the Game Innovation Lab: http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/september-october-2012/game-innovation-lab-nyu-poly Read More…
Beautiful Spread about GIL in latest issue of ACM's Interactions
September 12, 2012ACM did a great interview with our director about the Game Innovation Lab: http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/september-october-2012/game-innovation-lab-nyu-poly Read More…
Ben Weber Presents: Learning and Modeling Player Behavior in Games
March 28, 2012Speaker: Ben Weber (UC Santa Cruz) Time: Friday 3/30, 11am – 12 noon Place: The Game Innovation Lab, LC 102 ——– Abstract: Video games provide an excellent environment for artificial intelligence (AI) research,… Read More…
Kinect + Flash Get Your Game On Workshop!
March 23, 2012Our Fourth Workshop in G.I.L's Get Your Game On! Workshop Series: Using Adobe Flash with Kinect to create 2d Natural User Interfaces. – Saturday, April 28th, 2012 9am – 5pm RSVP FREE NOW! http://kinectplusflash.eventbrite.com or… Read More…
Zynga Talk Retrospective
March 7, 2012Last week here at the GIL we had an awesome guest speaker from Zynga, software engineer Joey Sommer. He came to talk about how they handle hosting online social games with millions of active users,… Read More…
Zynga Tech Talk
February 28, 2012Come join us for a special presentation by one of the hottest companies in the game industry. A little bit about our guest speaker: Joey Sommer is an early Zynga engineer and a huge… Read More…
Biometric Passwords on Bloomberg TV!
January 9, 2012Lab Director Katherine Isbister and professor Nasir Memon at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, talk about biometric password technology. He speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." via Bloomberg.com Read More…
Anything but a Password – NYTimes.com
December 24, 2011Today one of our projects made the front page of NYTimes.com! The touch-screen approach of Professor Memon in Brooklyn works because, as it happens, each person makes the same gesture uniquely. Their fingers are different,… Read More…
October Research Demos….
October 12, 2011If you have been interested in stopping by to see what research projects we have been working on in the Game Innovation Lab, this is your chance to come on over! On Tuesday, October 18th,… Read More…