DigiPen Faculty Publications

DigiPen's faculty is a very accomplished group that are not only sharing their knowledge and experience with DigiPen's students but many have also had their work published. Below is a list of some of the work published by faculty members:

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Mike Moore

BAs in English/Communication Arts, MA in Communication Arts

Michael was a 24-year veteran of the games industry before joining DigiPen Institute of Technology in January 2003. Michael is the current chair of the Department of Game Software Design and Production at DigiPen and has recently completed his book "Introduction to the Game Industry" (ISBN: 0131687433).

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Dr. Xin Li

Dr. Li is responsible for DigiPen's Master of Science in Computer Science program and recently contributed an article to the August 2005 Editor of Game Developer Magazine entitled "To Slerp or Not to Slerp" where he defends one way to utilize Slerp to your advantage. (http://www.gdmag.com/archive/aug06.htm) Dr. Li has also recently published:

• "VQS Transformation with an Incremental Approach"
• "iSlerp:An Incremental Approach to Slerp"

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Stephen Schafer

Professor Schafer has been a faculty member at Digipen for seven years. His primary responsibility there has been to teach Composition, Mythology for Game Design, Creative Writing for Game Designers, and Elements of the Media and Game Development to students in the RTIS program. He recently published "Curriculum and the Dream Paradigm" - Oct. 2006 on Gamasutra's Game Career Guide - (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11114)

"Premise: The Key to Interactive Storytelling - (http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/357/premise_the_key_to_interactive_.php?page=1)

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Tony White

Tony White is an animation instructor at DigiPen who has notably published the "The Animator's Workbook" (Watson-Guptill; ISBN: 0823002292) and more recently, Tony completed "Animation from Pencils to Pixels ~ Classical Techniques for Digital Animators" (Focal Press; ISBN: 0240806700)

• Biography of Tony White

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Michael Aristidou

B.S. Mathematics, M.S. Mathematics, M.A. Philosophy, Ph.D. Mathematics

Micheal is a math professor who joined DigiPen in 2005. His publications include:

• "Logarithm of the Discrete Fourier Transform" co-authored with Jason Hanson, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2007
• "Games in Fuzzy Environments", with S. Sarangi, was published in the SOUTHERN ECONOMIC JOURNAL, 2006.
• "Differential Recursion Relations for Laguerre Functions on Symmetric Cones", with G. Olafsson and M. Davidson, was published in BULLENTIN DES SCIENCES MATHEMATIQUES, 2006.
• "Laguerre Functions Associated to Euclidean Jordan Algebras (Dissertation)" published by ProQuest/UMI

• "Laguerre Functions on Symmetric Cones and Recursion Relations in the Real Case", with G. Olafsson and M. Davidson, is in print in JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 2007.

Michael is also interested in undergraduate research, and he supervised the paper "Fuzzy Steering for Autonomous MCU-based Mobile Robotics" (by students R. Casey and M. Hensler) published in the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS AND CONTROL (2006).

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Jason Hanson

BS degrees in Astronomy and Mathematics/Physics, MS degree in Physics, MA degree from Columbia University, and a PhD from the University of Hawaii.

Jason teaches Computer Science classes in a wide variety of areas: programming, computer graphics, data compression, and algorithm analysis. Prior to coming to DigiPen, he has taught at US military bases in South Korea for the University of Maryland, and has worked as a professional computer programmer at NASA/GISS. His research interests are in algebraic topology (equivariant homology theories and geometric realization) and computational topology. He co-authored

• "Tensor products of symmetric functions over Z2" with Karl Heinz Dovermann, Central European Journal of Mathematics, Volume 3, Number 2 (2005), p. 251-259. Description (from the abstract): "We calculate the homology and the cycles in tensor products of algebras of symmetric function over Z2."
• "Logarithm of the Discrete Fourier Transform" with Michael Aristidou, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2007

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Dr. Bikramjit Banerjee

Ph.D in Computer Science

Dr. Bikramjit Banerjee is an assistant professor of computer science at DigiPen who teachs Analysis of Algorithms (CS330) and will be teaching Machine Learning (CS381) as well as Advanced AI in Games (CS520).

Dr. Banerjee recently cowrote "General Game Learning using Knowledge Transfer", (to appear, 2007) in the Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jan 6 - 12, 2007 to be held in Hyderabad, India. (IJCAI-07). The paper is weblinked at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~banerjee/banerjee.pdf.

Dr. Banerjee has published over 20 technical papers and received a graduate research exellence award from Tulane School of Engineering in 2004. A complete list of his publications can be accessed at http://www.eecs.tulane.edu/Banerjee/pub.html.

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Kamal Siegal

Kamal is a part-time Maya instructor for DigiPen's BFA program:

• Online Publications:

• IGN.com
  • Character Customization Part 1 (http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/677/677933p1.html)
  • Character Customization Part 2 (http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/678/678881p1.html)
  • Character Customization Part 3 (http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/681/681882p1.html)
• XBOX.com (featured artist)
  • The Stadium that Art Built
• Printed Publications:
• Photoshop Illuminated / By Jaimy McCann *(featured artist)*
• 2004 Baha'i Wall Calendar / By Badi Publishing *(featured artist)*
• Animation from Pencils to Pixels / By Tony White *(showcased artwork)*

• Audio Publications

• First Steps / Music CD by Kamal Siegel / Produced by Faro Producciones http://www.kamalsmusic.com/

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