Facebook’s AI beats human poker champions
Facebook AI Research and Carnegie Mellon University today detailed the creation of Pluribus, a poker-playing AI that Facebook claims is the first to beat...
Project Axon is a VR game that shows how fake news spreads
If you’ve been online, you’ve seen fake news. A team of graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University created a virtual reality game called Project...
Carnegie Mellon’s ETC is like the Disneyland of video game schools
Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center became famous in part because of The Last Lecture. Computer scientist Randy Pausch and Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama,...
The DeanBeat: Pittsburgh steels itself to become a regional game hub
Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center is a sprawling building on the banks of Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River. It attracts students from around the globe,...
The DeanBeat: Intel University discovers the best college game projects
Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Wisconsin Stout won the top honors in the annual Intel University contest for best student game at...
Gaming academic Jesse Schell expounds on chocofication and motivating players to play and pay (interview)
Jesse Schell talks with GamesBeat about a wide range of possibilities for the future of gaming, from eye-tracking to Google Glass. And he has a new crowdsourced gaming idea.