Awards
Certificate of Appreciation, Harkness Instuitute, 2010
Certificate of Appreciation, Colegio Mexico Americano, 2010
Certificate of Appreciation, British American School, 2010
EA Scholar, Microsoft Cruise, 2008
2nd Best Paper Award, awarded at International Virtual
Storytelling Conference 2005 in France, for work on Lighting and Games.
Student Best Paper Award, awarded by ACM at Autonomous
Agents Conference 1999 in for Work on believable characters.
Leadership Award, Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University, 2008.
Award of Excellence, Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University, 2008.
Research Excellence Award, Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University, 2008.
Featured in Industry Books and Events
Lighting work (ELE) appeared in Real-time Cinematography for Games by Brian Hawkins, 2005
Believable characters work (FLAME) appeared in Programming Believable Characters For Computer Games (Game Development Series) by Penny Baillie-de Byl, 2004
Believable characters work (FLAME) appeared in Fuzzy Logic: Intelligence, Control, and Information. John Yen and Reza Langari,1999
Work was described as future of next generation graphical techniques in industry presentation by Cinematic Effects II: The Revenge, Kevin Bjorke, NVIDIA Corporation at world leading Game conference, the Game Developer’s Conference (GDC), 2004.
In the News (or In the Press)
Demonstrations and Exhibits
Magy Seif El-Nasr and Joseph Zupko. (2006). A Tool for Aesthetic-based Lighting Design in Interactive 3D Environments. SandBox 2006. (Poster and Demo).
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Joseph Zupko, and Keith Miron. (2005). “Intelligent Lighting for a better gaming experience,” CHI 2005 Interactivity. Portland, Oregon, April.
Magy Seif El-Nasr. (2004) “Mirage,” Presented by Pagulayan, R. at CHI 2004, SIG on Games and HCI.
Magy Seif El-Nasr. (2004) “Light AI,” Presented at AAAI Workshop on Game AI. [refereed publication and demo presentation, Seif El-Nasr presented].
Invited Panels and talks (Selected)
Next Generation Believable Characters. University of Rey Juan Carlos, Spain, 2010.
AI and Adaptive Design for Games. Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2010.
[KEYNOTE SPEECH] Can we Design Games that can Entertain and Educate? Serious Games Winter School, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2010.
[KEYNOTE SPEECH] User Experience Research: Intersection between Psychology and Games. Interactive Entertainment Conference, Sydney Australia, 2009.
Panel on What IGDA Can do for you, Game Developers Conference Vancouver, Future Play, 2009.
Panel on Academia and Industry: exploring the divide within Game Field. Game Developers Conference Vancouver, Future Play, 2009.
Student Independent Game Festival (IGF) Post-Mortem. Game Developers Conference, 2009.
Panel: Academic/Industry Collaboration, Foundations of Digital Games 2009 with Tom McMail (Microsoft External Research), Mark Overmars (Utrecht University) and Bill Swartout (USC/ICT), Foundations of Digital Games, 2009.
Successful Game Programs, Game Developer’s Conference, 2008. Panel moderator, Panel members: Tracy Fullerton, Scott Roberts, Andrew Phelps, John Buchanan, Michael Nitsche So You Want to Start a Game Program? IGDA Education SIG presents the Curriculum Framework Initiative & Curricular Models, Siggraph, 2007 Panel with Susan Gold and Tracy Fullerton at Siggraph. What do Students Learn when they are Modding? Panel with Kurt Squire, Constance Steinkuehler, and Alice Robison at Sandbox Symposium, 2006 Interactive Narrative, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, BC, March 2008. Serious Game Design and Game Modding, RedHill Studios, Feb. 2008. Designing Tools to Enhance Interactive Experiences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 2006. Lighting Design for Interactive Entertainment. DrexelUniversity, Philadelphia, PA, 2006 Designing a Lighting Design Tool for Games. University of Iowa, Iowa city, IA, 2006 Borrowed Techniques from traditional media to Games. Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006. Developing an Interactive Experience based on lessons from Cinematic and Acting theories, Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), University of Southern California, LA, CA, 2005 Automatic Lighting Design, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005 Visual Design Authoring Tools, EDC/Center for Children and Technology, NYC, NY, Dec, 2003 Visual Intelligence for Interactive Narrative, IBM T. J. Watson, NYC, NY, Dec, 2003
