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Innovative Technology Action Group

ITAG and Penn State Great Valley Present:

An IT Lecture Series

Industry executives will share their expertise and perspectives on issues such as:
      • Core problems with creating secure, reliable, and safe software artifacts
      • The challenges facing the software industry
      • Ensuring quality in product development
      • Technological challenges in the game development process

Software: The Great
Enabler or Disabler

  

Videogame Development:
The Fun Side of Technology

Featuring: Dr. Jeffrey Voas,
Director of Systems Assurance, SAIC
Wednesday, May 30 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm

  

Featuring: Laird Malamed,
Head of Production, Activision, Inc.
Wednesday, June 6 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Dr. Voas been highly active in the software engineering research community for over fifteen years. He was the IEEE Reliability Society president from 2003 to 2005, is currently an Associate Editor-In-Chief of IEEE’s IT Professional magazine, and serves on the Advisory Board of IEEE’s Software magazine. He co-founded a small company called Cigital Inc., that was listed in the Inc. 500 for two years in a row as one of the fastest growing small companies in the U.S. Voas received his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Tulane University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the College of William and Mary.   Malamed currently oversees production for the entire mainline releases of Activision, the second largest thirdparty publisher of video games. Activision created the Call of Duty®, Spider-Man™, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater™ games series. Before joining Activision, Malamed worked as a sound editor for Sony Pictures Entertainment and LucasFilm Ltd. He has worked on a variety of film and television properties including The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Clear and Present Danger. Malamed earned a joint Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering and Film & Media Studies. He attended the Graduate School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.

Don't miss these two industry leaders!  These one-hour presentations are free and open to the public.  Both events will take place at Penn State Great Valley - 30 E. Swedesford Road, Malvern, PA 19355

RSVP to bxm28@psu.edu or 610-648-3335.  For more information visit www.gv.psu.edu/engineering.  
 

 

 

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