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Michael in two hundred and sixty nine words:  Michael is an associate professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He founded and is co-director of the NCSU Digital Games Research Center and directs the Liquid Narrative research group.  He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2000 and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Game Development from 2007 through 2008.  He is an associate editor of the IEEE journal Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games and an editorial board member of the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting.

 

Young is a leader in the area of Computer Science games and entertainment research.  He was a co-founder and Conference Chair for the First Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment in 2005 and served as the Tutorials Chair for AIIDE-2006. He was a co-organizer of the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference in 2006.  He served as the Program Chair for the The Third Annual Microsoft Academic Days Conference on Game Development in 2008 and is a co-founder and program chair for the Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games in 2009.  He also served as the local arrangements chair for the Intelligent User Interfaces conference in 2009. In 2010, Michael will serve as the Program Co-Chair for the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games.

 

Michael received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the California State University in Sacramento in 1984. He received an MS in Computer Science with a concentration in Symbolic Computation from Stanford in 1989. In 1998 he received a Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh.

 

In 2005, Young was elected to the North Carolina State University Academy of Outstanding Teachers and received an Outstanding Teacher Award from the NCSU Office of the Provost. In 2008, Young received an IBM Faculty Award (together with George Rouskas).  In 2009, he was an Outstanding Extension Service Award recipient for the NCSU College of Engineering and was elected to the North Carolina State Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension.   Young has published a range of scientific and technical papers in the areas of interactive narrative, AI and computer games, automatic 3D camera control, planning and computational linguistics.