The concept art for the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation.
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New computer science center will honor the memory of a lost Oculus cofounder

Brendan Iribe, chief executive of Facebook’s Oculus VR division, dedicated the launch of a new computer science building at the University of Maryland over the weekend. On Facebook, he wrote that he attended the groundbreaking of the new Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation, which includes the computer science building, Antonov Auditorium and Reisse Park. The latter was named after an Oculus cofounder, Andrew Reisse, who died three years ago.

Reisse was struck and killed by a speeding vehicle in 2013. He was in the middle of a crosswalk in Santa Ana, California, when a car fleeing the police struck him in a tragic accident. He handled the software for the Oculus Rift VR headset, and he died well before its launch on March 28.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.