Network Investigator: Duane Szafron

Contact Information

University of Alberta Block Captain

• Professor of Computing Science, Alberta
• 1.780.492.5468 (voice)
• 1.780.492.1071 (fax)
• mailto:[email protected]
• http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~duane

GRAND Projects

• Believable Character Behaviors and Stories in Story-based Games
• Developing Methods for Evaluating Social Play For Kids

Biography

Duane Szafron is currently a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He has been doing research in object-oriented computing since 1980, including language design, language implementation, programming environments and parallel computing. His current research interests are in computer games, especially scripting in computer story-based games and agents in computer poker. He teaches object-oriented computing courses to students at all levels, from first year through graduate school, as well as a graduate course about programming languages and environments for creating computer games. He is one of the founders of two University of Alberta spin-off companies: BioTools, the developer of the popular Poker Academy poker software, and Chenomx, a developer of medical diagnostic software.