NC State engineering students and faculty working on model for the Engineers' Fair in 1949. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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What if every time you sat down to play a video game, the story that unfolded before you was unique to you? That’s the vision of Michael Young, a computer science professor and co-director of the university’s Digital Games Research Center. In this interview with Escapist Magazine, he and Patrick Sebring, lead technical designer at Atomic Games, talk about artificial intelligence in gaming.
Gaming is big business, and researchers and students at NC State are doing some fascinating work in the area. Earlier this year, we posted a few examples of games created last year by students in one of Young’s classes and a link to an article we did last year on gaming at NC State.
College of Engineering students work on a MAVAC computer in the 1960s. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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Wallace Carl Riddick, pictured here in 1940, former president of North Carolina State College and its first dean of the School of Engineering, took his first surveying lesson on this instrument in 1883 and later used it for his first surveying job. (Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, NCSU Libraries)
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NC State students and faculty have made the news recently with their work. First, a Discovery Channel clip on a lunar rover developed by NC State engineering students, who modeled their design after a tumbleweed (unfortunately there’s no embed code for the clip). It’s a neat segment, and you get to see their prototype in action.
Next, a Salon.com story on a recent study by political science professor Steve Greene that found that “parenthood makes moms more liberal and dads more conservative.” men become more conservative when they become fathers but women become more liberal when they become mothers.
“Basically, women with children in the home were more liberal on social welfare attitudes, and attitudes about the Iraq War, than women without children at home,” Greene says, “which is a very different understanding of the politics of mothers than captured by the ‘Security Mom’ label popular in much media coverage. But men with kids are more conservative on social welfare issues than men without kids.” Men with kids did not differ from men without kids in their attitudes towards Iraq.
Thanks to NC State News Services for pointing us to these.
NC State is sponsoring Military Appreciation Day at Saturday’s football game against Murray State at Carter-Finley Stadium. GoPack has information about the day’s events and about the Back Home Box Foundation, which provides care packages for soldiers stationed overseas. We’re sponsoring an Army ROTC Alumni Tailgate.
We thought it would be a good time to highlight a couple of military-related stories that have come across our desks recently. The first, from GoPack, tells of two cousins, First Lt. Christopher Young ’05 and Capt. Drew Wimsatt ’03, who both played football for the Wolfpack. Young, a Marine, was awarded the Bronze Star recently. Wimsatt, who flies Cobra attack helicopters, provided the flag that the Pack carried into Carter-Finley for the season’s first game.
Wimsatt believes his job is a lot like football. It’s all about preparation and training.
“You have to rely on the tactics we’re trained to use,” he said. “It’s a lot like football. You practice, you go through your two-a-days, you do all the preparation to get to that point. Then, when you are in a game, there is nothing to it. You do what you have been practicing to do.”
The other, from last week’s faculty/staff newsletter highlights the work of John Muth, an electrical and computer engineering professor and Navy reservist who was awarded a Bronze Star this spring and is back on campus.
For 12 months, the electrical and computer engineering professor negotiated Iraq’s violence and sticky politics as he led a team of 30 civilians, military personnel and translators providing advice and support to the nation’s Ministry of the Interior. The ministry will eventually take charge of all internal security in Iraq, allowing the Iraqi army to focus on external threats.
Zootoo Pet News recently interviewed Ola Harrysson, an associate professor of engineering, about his work in osseointegrated prosthetics. Unlike traditional prosthetic limbs, which can be removed, osseointegrated prosthetics attach to the bone.
The osseointegrated prosthetic becomes a part of the pet’s leg and in all cases the animal has been able to ambulate normally using the prosthetic. It is our hope that these animal patients will be able to live a normal life after the procedure and will be able to walk and run like any other pet. The owners still have to be very involved in the process for the procedure to be a success.
A few months ago, we posted a CBS video on Cassidy, a dog who had received this kind of implant here at NC State. We first wrote about the work of Harrysson and veterinary medicine professor Denis Marcellin-Little in 2003.
With all sorts of university-related organizations using Twitter, the popular microblogging site is a wealth of NC State news and info. We have our own feed to help keep you up to date on news from the blog and around campus. We’ve also compiled a list of other Twitter feeds from around campus. If we missed any, add them in the comments or e-mail them to alumniblog@gw.ncsu.edu.
News: NC State News Services and Technician.
Academics & Research: Engineering Library; Friends of the Library; MBA Students; Graduate School and the Insect Museum.
Athletics: Pack Athletics; Wolfpack Club; Men’s Soccer; Men’s Basketball; Women’s Basketball; Gymnastics; Football and Volleyball.
Student Affairs, Campus Life and Activities: Division of Student Affairs; Student Affairs Tech Services; Union Activities Board; NCSU Bookstores; Interfraternity Council; NCSU Sororities; NCSU GLBT; Study Abroad; Office of Information Technology; NCSU College Republicans; Graduate Association of Students in Psychology; Photo Club; NCSU Student Chapter of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics; WKNC 88.1; Inter-Residence Council; Campus Recreation; Campus Activities and NCSU Surplus.
Alumni: NC State Alumni Association and MBA Alumni
Other groups: NC State PR, Cashier’s Office and Wolfpack Promotions.
Yesterday, the science Web site EarthSky posted a podcast featuring an interview with chemical engineering professor Joseph DeSimone. They talked with him about green chemistry, his research and transporting medicine straight to the source of disease. You can click the link below or visit the EarthSky page to listen to the podcast.
Last year, DeSimone won the Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention and innovation. The prize, which bills itself as the “Oscar for Inventors,” is just one of many honors he has earned. The News & Observer named him its 2008 Tar Heel of the Year and has a lot of good background on him in its profile.
NC State holds campus budget forum for students, faculty and staff (PowerPoint available). . . . UNC System might have to raise raise tuition, the N&O reports. . . . Former provost Larry Nielsen meets with grand jury. . . Interim provost and vet school dean Dr. Warwick Arden named president of Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. . . . Aerospace engineering Ph.D. student building autonomous glider with a goal of a 141.7-mile cross country flight without human intervention. . . . Director of College of Engineering’s K-12 outreach program wins presidential award. . . . Former Wolfpack baseball star Aaron Bates ’07 makes a splash in his first games with the Boston Red Sox. . . . Technician covers the opening of the Lonnie Poole Golf Course. . . . Wolfpack golfer Brad Revell says practicing with roommate, friend and national champion Matt Hill “shows you what you need to do.” . . . Monty Montegue ’80, design principal at BOLT Group, discusses creativity and innovation in business on WFAE’s Charlotte Talks. . . . Former NC State women’s basketball assistant coach named president of the board of the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.
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