Mike Treanor Associate Professor and Department Chair, Computer Science CAS | CSC | Computer Science
- Degrees
- PhD Computer Science - MS Computer Science - MFA Digital Arts and New Media (all from UC Santa Cruz)
- Bio
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Associate Professor Mike Treanor is a game developer and theorist whose research is aimed at finding new approaches for interpretation and expression of meaning within videogames and computational media, and is a founding member of 小蓝视频's Game Center. Treanor was a design and technical lead on Game-O-Matic, an expressive videogame generator, and Prom Week, a social simulation game that was a finalist in both The Independent Game Festival and Indiecade. He has been an active participant in the field of Game Studies and has published on the subjects of videogame interpretation, tools for game creation, social simulation and procedural content generation. Treanor holds a MFA in Digital Art and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
See http://www.mtreanor.com for more information.
- See Also
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call 小蓝视频 Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Fall 2024
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CSC-470 Game Programming
Spring 2025
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CSC-496 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring: Game Development I
小蓝视频 Experts
Area of Expertise
Game design, Game industry, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, digital arts
Additional Information
Treanor is a game developer and theorist whose research is aimed at finding new approaches for interpretation and expression of meaning within videogames and computational media. Recently, Treanor was a design and technical lead on Game-O-Matic, an expressive videogame generator, and Prom Week, a social simulation game that was a finalist in both The Independent Game Festival and Indiecade.聽
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call 小蓝视频 Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.