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- From: Joseph.Bates@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
- Subject: CMU interactive fiction course
- Date: 18 Feb 90 06:25:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <16243@well.sf.ca.us>
- Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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- The following is a copy of an announcement at Carnegie Mellon University,
- but it may be of interest to readers of these newsgroups...
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- The Oz project in the CMU School of Computer Science is building
- software to support high quality interactive fiction/drama. Our
- research efforts include cognitive and emotional modeling for
- characters, computational theories of drama, and computational
- theories of narrative. We expect eventually to apply this
- technology to systems based on virtual world interfaces.
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- This semester we are offering an informal course to introduce Oz
- to potential writers of interactive fiction. We expect to present
- roughly 6 lectures, and to work individually with writers as they
- create interactive worlds of their own design.
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- The course will be small and informal. Some programming experience
- is required, and some creative writing experience is very desirable.
- A playwright or fiction writer comfortable with Lisp and capable of
- writing 100 line programs would be perfect, but in lieu of perfection,
- we are happy to hear from all interested individuals. If necessary,
- the size of this first offering of the course will be limited.
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- The starting date and meeting times will depend on the participants.
- Our initial proposal will be to hold lectures once a week, Tuesday
- 12:00-1:15, beginning in early March.
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- Interested individuals are encouraged to send a short message to
- Joseph.Bates@cs.cmu.edu by Monday February 26. Please include a few
- words on your background in programming and writing, your familiarity
- with interactive fiction (such as Infocom products), and indicate
- roughly how much time you could devote to the course each week.
-