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When you like something, it's an opinion...
But when I like something, it's a MANIFESTO!
Created on 2004-11-24 07:19:41 (#5249649), last updated 2009-04-14
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Basic Info| Name: | mmvashnik |
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| Birthdate: | 1979-03-16 |
| Location: | New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada |
| Website: | The Geek Movement |
BioI am a graduate student at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver BC. I am currently working on my Masters degree at SFU's School of Interactive Arts and Technology. I've actually started writing my thesis at this point, and hope to be done and defending by June of 2008. Currently I am working on several analytical lenses for evaluating interactive narrative experiences, but my interests include user modeling, intelligent agents, computational models of emotions, games, and pretty much all things geeky. I don't blog here much anymore, since grad school takes up so much of my time. If you are interested in the ideas that I am researching, you can check out my academic blog at http://www.thegeekmovement.com/blog/, or my homepage at http://josh.thegeekmovement.com/
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University of Redlands - Redlands, CA (1998 - 2002)Simon Fraser University - Vancouver, BC, Canada (2006 - present)
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