December 21, 2006
Local Boy Makes Good
Last week Good Times, a local Santa Cruz weekly, ran a cover story about my research and the new game program at UC Santa Cruz.
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December 21st, 2006 at 9:09 pm
It’s a pretty good, thoughtful article, one of the better ones to describe Façade.
(You could have titled this post with a quote from the article, “Borat is a computer”.)
I liked the description of your robot self.
Speaking of good times with the press, we had fun doing this TV interview last month for the local CBS news in San Francisco.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
yay michael. go robots.