New Game MSc in TCD

stevec64

TCD has created a new Game MSc called the MSc in Interactive Entertainment Technology. For further details go here.

This is a 1-year intensive technology masters, requiring a degree in computing (or related topic) and features great support from industry. Microsoft is sponsoring the XNA Gamelab (where each student gets to develop on an Xbox360 using XNA and a dul core PC with DX10 class GPU). The course was recently featured in the EDGE magazine (issue 177).

The 1-year curriculum includes an individual research dissertation, a group game technology project and a selection of modules including::

Numerical Methods and Mathematical Modelling
Software Engineering for Concurrent and Distributed Systems
Data Communications and Networks
Graphics and Console Hardware and Real-time Rendering
Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Agents
Real-time Animation and Physics
Vision Systems and Augmented Reality

Check out the course webpages and don't hesitate to contact us if you've any questions about the course.

Closing date is July 31st for applications for the year starting in October 2007.

Regards,
Steve (course director)

ApeXaviour

Excellent, thanks for the info.

Stargal

This got great publicity in the last couple of days - saw it on at least three Irish news sites. The picture on the TCD homepage is good:

Nietzschean

hadn't seen that, lolz... no clue who that is on the right, i wonder if its some randomer they just got to hold the X...

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

It looks like an amazing Masters - really well-designed.

Slutmonkey57b

The Executive Marketing President Manager from Microsoft. Or something like that. Whatever. A suit from XBOX.

enda1

Wonder if the fact that they may have to spend $1,000,000,000 fixing dodgy xboxs could impact the funding...

enda1

enda1 wrote:

Wonder if the fact that they may have to spend $1,000,000,000 fixing dodgy xboxs could impact the funding...

'course not. This way they'll have Masters students fixing those faulty XBox's for free!

europerson

Nietzschean wrote:

hadn't seen that, lolz... no clue who that is on the right, i wonder if its some randomer they just got to hold the X...

According to yesterday's Business Post, it's Orla Sheridan, who's the "home and entertainment division manager with Microsoft Ireland".

heyjude

For years they've been saying in TCD, that computers are not for playing games on !

How ironic in light of this announcement :rolleyes:

Nietzschean

europerson wrote:

According to yesterday's Business Post, it's Orla Sheridan, who's the "home and entertainment division manager with Microsoft Ireland".

so i discovered by asking the other person in that photograph

cunnins4 wrote:

looks like a cool course. god i hate steve collins though. i really, really do.

Ummm why's that? must be one of the soundest if not the soundest lecturers i've come across in tcd..... Did you fail his course?

Heyjude wrote:

For years they've been saying in TCD, that computers are not for playing games on !

How ironic in light of this announcement

The Msc is in developing computer games, not playing them...its mostly maths and physics really....

ApeXaviour

Nietzschean wrote:

its mostly maths and physics really....

Lies, I see no bandgaps, no density of states </(inebriated)esotericness>

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

Lies, I see no bandgaps, no density of states </(inebriated)esotericness>

lol

Boston

cunnins4 wrote:

looks like a cool course. god i hate steve collins though. i really, really do.

Hmm, you appear to be alone. I've never meet steve, I persume he started this thread, but he seems well like by the engineers he lectures in 2nd year, and I think he does some third year management?

cunnins4

didn't even notice the op's name. It probably was him that started the thread. I don't really want to get into a discussion of a lecturer because i don't think it's fair to be putting stuff like that up on the web about him, so i'll keep strum, but i had him this past year and i just didn't find his course to be quite good. I did enjoy parts of it, but sometimes found the content to be irrelevant and the assessments unneccessarily (sp?) difficult.

I didn't fail, and in parts i did VERY well.

Anyways, as i said, i don't wanna get into bad mouthing on the web-that aint cool!

King.Penguin

there were bits about his course you didn't like therefore you hate him. retract your comments or explain yourself. or do neither!

cunnins4

to hell with it. i retract. post deleted, i don't want to get into this.

heyjude

Nietzschean wrote:

The Msc is in developing computer games, not playing them...its mostly maths and physics really....

Hard to develop them without having seen them first.

ApeXaviour

Don't fret heyjude, I've been in Neitz's shared office, there's wii remotes scattered everywhere, a PS3 and a giant projector board. He's just trying to give the impression he does some work...

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

Don't fret heyjude, I've been in Neitz's shared office, there's wii remotes scattered everywhere, a PS3 and a giant projector board. He's just trying to give the impression he does some work...

Hey we work hard! that stuff is all there for 'work' purposes, and so i can try set a new high score in wii bowling.... but yeah hard work n such...

Nietzschean

cunnins4 wrote:

didn't even notice the op's name. It probably was him that started the thread.

It was him, informing us of his new msc

I don't really want to get into a discussion of a lecturer because i don't think it's fair to be putting stuff like that up on the web about him, so i'll keep strum, but i had him this past year and i just didn't find his course to be quite good.

You can pm me this, but what aspect per say? if you have some legitimate constructive critism regarding the course i'd say steve would be happy to hear it. From the feedback i've heard of people taking the course the interest in it computers, and even numbers in comp eng i believe have increased since that course started?

I did enjoy parts of it, but sometimes found the content to be irrelevant and the assessments unneccessarily (sp?) difficult.

IMO there is no such thing unless 90% of a class fail an assignment... i had the course that preceeded steve's, and frankly the assignments were trivial, i got 100% in every single one, including the big project, it was just silly......

Boston

cunnins4 wrote:

but sometimes found the content to be irrelevant and the assessments unneccessarily (sp?) difficult.

You might want to direct some of that hatred towards me. You should have seen the course that was there before, dumbed down for civil and Mech, which of coruse they still couldn't understand.

M450

stevo, stevo, stevo... moanin again!!

It was a grand aul course, and we both passed it so what u moanin about! Dont say you didnt enjoy the projects, you got well stuck into that computer game!!

I'd have to agree that it seemed like we were thrown in the deep end with alot of the labs but figuring it out for ourselves made it so much more interesting and rewarding in the end!

Although it did take a while to get my head around visual studios...