News & Announcements
June 22, 2006
Serious Games
Saving the world—one game at a time.
Some may scoff at the notion, but while gaming news in recent weeks has been bombarded with talk of legislation or hearings on violence against the…
June 21, 2006
ICT wins modeling and simulation award from DOD
A USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) product has received the Modeling and Simulation Award for Training from the Department of Defense – the highest honor for simulation applications. The “Self-Directed Learning Internet Module”, SLIM-ES3:…
June 16, 2006
The Changing National Training Center
A look at the changing National Training Center, by Brigadier General Robert W. Cone, U.S. Army. ICT has been very involved in adding realism their existing training through an enhancement program, bringing Hollywood talent to…
May 19, 2006
Control a car with your thoughts—it’s therapeutic
USC CCT technologies at work. A soldier in a Humvee scoots across the desert, warily eyeing the vast, empty plain. A fire appears on the horizon, driving smoke high into the sky. The soldier is…
May 05, 2006
Training in mock Iraq
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Three years into the conflict in Iraq, the front line in the American drive to prepare troops for insurgent warfare runs through a cluster of mock Iraqi villages deep in the…
March 16, 2006
ICT Virtual Reality Therapy featured on nVidia site
ICT research into virtual reality therapy (Skip Rizzo’s group based on work by Jarrell Pair) is featured on the nVidia site.
February 14, 2006
ICT’s Full Spectrum Warrior: Virtual Reality Prepares Soldiers for Real War
One blistering afternoon in Iraq, while fighting insurgents in the northern town of Mosul, Sgt. Sinque Swales opened fire with his .50-cal. That was only the second time, he says, that he ever shot an…
February 12, 2006
ICT at Serious Games Summit: a review
Presented on the first day of Serious Games Summit 2005, this fascinating session explained some of the work carried out by the University of Southern California-connected Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), a university-affiliated research center…
February 09, 2006
Virtual Reality Therapy for Combat Stress
A new, high-tech system designed to treat military veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—or PTSD—may be familiar to fans of a squad-based combat video game.
Using components from the popular game Full Spectrum…
January 13, 2005
ICT Appoints Lunceford Chief Technology Advisor
Dr. Randy Hill Promoted as Institute Restructures to Move Technology to Market - forbes.com.
August 20, 2004
ICT in OK and WIRED
ICT’s JFETS work at Fort Sill, Oklahoma - a multi-sensory platform in which future soldiers will train for battle - is the focus of the article "The War Room" in Wired Magazine online today at…
August 16, 2004
The Parthenon Premiered At SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater
The Parthenon, the ICT graphics lab’s computer animation that features photoreal models of the Parthenon and its sculptures, premiered at the SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater. The film showcased novel research techniques in deriving surface reflectance…
August 15, 2004
Scent Your Senses: The SEE Project’s Scent Collar a big hit at SIGGRAPH!
The Scent Collar, developed by ICT and AnthroTronix, was featured at the SIGGRAPH 2004 Cyber Fashion show with the tag line: The Ultimate in Cyber Diva Chic Couture. Its use as a means of augmenting…
August 14, 2004
ICT Featured In Rolling Stone Magazine
In the August 19th issue of Rolling Stone, ICT was featured under the section "Hot Geeks". The following is an excerpt from that article. "ICT attracted an unlikely array of Hollywood talent, from Paul Debevec,…
May 09, 2004
CD/V Production Wins US International Film Festival “Golden Camera”
Nowhere to Hide, a short film created by ICT’s Concept Development & Visualization team for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, PM Unit of Action Technologies, won First Place in the Training & Education category…
November 05, 2003
Dr. Andrew S. Gordon publishes his first book
Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge describes an innovative methodology for investigating the conceptual structures that underlie human reasoning. This work explores the nature of planning strategies--the abstract patterns of planning behavior that people…
October 05, 2003
Pentagon increasing works with video game industry
Pentagon increasingly works with video games industry - modbee.com.
July 15, 2003
USC wins another prestigious award
Negotiations over Tasks in Hybrid Human-Agent Teams for Simulation-Based Training by David Traum, Jeff Rickel, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella received the Best Innovative System/Application Paper Award at the AAMAS conference in Melbourne…
June 09, 2003
ICT’s new Army training aid wins Best Original Game and Best Simulation Game @ E3
Full Spectrum Warrior, the US Army squad-level X-Box training aid set to be published by Los Angeles publisher THQ, was previewed for the public at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Exposition, May 13-16. The definitive gamers’…
May 28, 2003
Full Spectrum Warrior at E3
Full Spectrum Warrior, which will be published by Los Angeles area publisher THQ, was previewed for the public at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Exposition, May 13-16. The definitive gamers’ conference, this year’s "E3" drew…
March 05, 2003
ICT puts Tinseltown talent to work on military defense
Thinking Outside the Tank, Calif.’s Institute for Creative Technologies Puts Tinseltown Talent to Work on Military Defense. - washingtonpost.com.
February 06, 2003
FlatWorld: Combining Hollywood Set-Design Techniques with VR
FlatWorld: Combining Hollywood Set-Design Techniques with VR - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
December 08, 2002
US Army technological advances
A Few Good Toys, The U.S. Army has some imaginative ways to annihilate the Saddams of the future. - forbes.com.
July 13, 2002
ICT part of an invited panel “Gaming and role play in VR and Augmented Reality” at SCI2002
Jay Douglas, Diane Piepol, Jarrell Pair and Jacki Morie are part of an invited panel "Gaming and role play in VR and Augmented Reality" at SCI2002 (Sixth World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics). July…
July 10, 2002
Andrew S. Gordon is giving a talk at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Andrew S. Gordon is giving a talk at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Aug 7-10, 2002 at George Mason University, entitled: "The Theory of Mind in Strategy Representations".
June 30, 2002
Siggraph 2002 presentations
SIGGRAPH 2002 Presentations July 21-26, 2002, San Antonio, Texas
Paul Debevec is giving a course "Image-Based Lighting"
http://www.siggraph.org/s2002/conference/courses/crs5.html
Paul Debevec speaking in Course "Recreating the Past"
June 29, 2002
Jacquelyn Ford Morie has been elected to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Council
Jacquelyn Ford Morie has been elected to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Council. She will serve a two year term as a Director-at-Large.
June 20, 2002
Buzz Aldrin and the Aerospace Commission visits the ICT
The buzz is Buzz: Buzz Aldrin and the Aerospace Commission visits the ICT.
June 03, 2002
Graphics Lab experiment
"Dots" the face!
March 20, 2002
Jacki Morie and William Swartout in the “1000 most creative individuals in the USA” list
Richard Saul Wurman’s "1000 most creative individuals in the USA" lists Jacki Morie and William Swartout from ICT.
January 31, 2002
Paul Debevec receives an Innovator award from MIT’s Technology Review
Paul Debevec receives an Innovator award from MIT’s Technology Review (2002).
November 29, 2001
Flatworld Ribbon Cutting
Flatworld Ribbon Cutting
November 14, 2001
Bringing Hollywood Pizazz to Military Training
Bringing Hollywood Pizazz to Military Training - nytimes.com.
November 14, 2001
Hollywood Think Tank Helping Army
Hollywood Think Tank Helping Army - Associated Press.
October 28, 2001
New Army Soldiers: Game Gamers
New Army Soldiers: Game Gamers - wired.com.
October 24, 2001
Army to Fund Video Games for Aspiring Commanders
Army to Fund Video Games for Aspiring Commanders - reuters.com.
October 14, 2001
Army enlists Hollywood in anti-terror war
Army enlists Hollywood in anti-terror war - chicagotribune.com
October 08, 2001
U.S. filmmakers mull terror scenarios for Army
U.S. filmmakers mull terror scenarios for Army - reuters.com.
July 30, 2001
Paul Debevec receives Significant Young Researcher Award
Significant Young Researcher Award given to Paul Debevec at SIGGRAPH 2001 conference. This award is given annually to a young researcher for signicant achievement in graphics research. 2001 was the first year this award was…
May 20, 2001
Simulation technology may help train US peacekeeping forces
The Mission Rehearsal Exercise, A Virtual Reality Tour de Force, Simulation technology may help train U.S. peacekeeping forces like the real thing. - University of Southern California Chronicle.
February 12, 2001
Paul Debevec goes to Europe to scan for the Parthenon Project
Paul Debevec goes to Europe to scan for the Parthenon Project.
February 06, 2001
Military experts are seeking ways to reduce deadliness and destructiveness in urban warfare
Fighting in, Faced with the mounting likelihood of urban warfare, military experts are seeking ways to reduce its deadliness and destructiveness. - IEEE Spectrum.
January 14, 2001
FIPA Software Prototype Award at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents 2001
FIPA Software Prototype Award (First Place) at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents 2001. Awarded to Mission Rehearsal Exercise system. Reviewers commented positively on the deeply interdisciplinary nature of the effort and pointed out that…
November 10, 2000
ICT awarded with the presitgous DMSO/NTSA M&S Achievement Award
Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO)/National Training Systems Association (NTSA) Outstanding Achievement in Modeling and Simulation Training Award given to the ICT (2000). From the government announcement: The ICT, an Army University Affiliated Research Center…