Last Wednesday were Half Presentations - so named because they're halfway through the term. We invited ETC alums, a number of our EA friends, and a few other guests to be in the audience for the two presentations and Q&A's afterward. A free lunch, of course, was used as bait.
The presentations were in a 'double-wide' theater at Electronic Arts, so the audience is twice as wide as it is deep. This can be an extra challenge for a presenter, but both teams did a great job of adapting.
Top image: The Tea & Sugar Team during their introductions.
Middle image: Linhan presenting with Shih-Han looking on.
Bottom image: Team Hatch, with the Global Imagination globe in demo mode.
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Quarter Presentations
October 2nd was 1/4 way though the semester, so it was time for formal quarter presentations. This is a shot of team Hatch and their Global Imagination globe with their first app on it. They are navigating around the world using a Wii remote looking at geotagged pictures from Flickr. Their interface allows you to input a string of tags and how far back in time you want to look, it then populates the planet with images. Think tags like "baby" or "sunset" or "toys" - the results are fascinating.
Monday, September 29, 2008
ICEC in Pittsburgh
We all headed back to CMU last week to attend the International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC). The ETC was one of the sponsors, and put on a great event. Some of the highlights included a great talk by the ETC's own Jesse Schell, the presentation of the Randy Pauche award to Ed Catmull followed by Ed sharing his insights, and an entertaining lunchtime talk from Anthony Daniels (C3PO), and Stan Szymanski of Sony Imageworks sharing some behind-the-scene secrets from the studio. Not to mention an open house at the ETC and the opportunity to see Don's newest acquisition: a lifesize Princess Leia in the hallway.

After the conference, the Tea & Sugar Train team visited the USS Requin at the Carnegie Science Center to see how the interactive displays done by ETC there work.
After the conference, the Tea & Sugar Train team visited the USS Requin at the Carnegie Science Center to see how the interactive displays done by ETC there work.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
HR Management Culture Introduction (Create. Innovate. Play. Repeat)
Colleen McCreary, the Director, Corporate HR & Diversity of EA Redwood Shores, come and gave us a talk to introduce the culture of HR management. She shared her great experience of her work and also gave us feedbacks to our resumes at the end.
The talk covers following topics:
EA Corporate Profile 2008
Reorganization
People
Marcket of dynamics
Culture of innovation
How is HR different at EA
What are they looking for
What are they NOT expecting
R&D
Interview strategy
Colleen talked about the history of EA. She gave us some examples to demonstrate how they take care of the interpersonal relationships through different existent and potential problems they encountered.
HR has guidelines, not rules. All of their politics are "local." How management works, how things get done, could be very different in different places. Ideas/Creativity/Risks are rewarded; Even might be failed, goals should be thought higher. Everyone needs to contribute to minimize hierarchy. They try to implement advancement by achievement, not tenure. HR also takes care of comforatble benefits. Their work gets involved in the game.
She also mentioned the culture of innavation in EA. They emphasize quality and innovation, act with integrity, and always listend and respond to consumer inputs, deliver beyond their expectations, build lifetime customers. "Be bold," "Think Consumbers First," "Learn and grow," and "Be accountable" are some rules they always obligate.
"Focus on people." She always concerntrates on trying to make colleagues more confident to their jobs.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Australia Trip for "Tea & Sugar Train Project"


meeting with UniSA ppl.....................................................................Visiting our client from"Railway Museum"
Augest 31, the whole team plus Don and Jiyoung flew to Adelaide, South Australia to meet with our teammate from University of South Australia(UniSA) and also our client.
All the meetings went well and the brainstorming session was crazy efficient. We throw down lots and lots of ideas so before we went back to US, we already have detail ideas for the first phase.
We are the team who work hard and play hard.
New group photo with Ben =)
professional group pose ^O^
For more detail trip information, please visit the team blog:
http://tstrain-etc.blogspot.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Welcome ETC SV Fall of 2008!
School started today! After a tour of the EA campus, and before lunch, we took our group photos.
Here's the whole crew:

Top row: Taefun, Carl (faculty), Trent
Middle row: Linhan, Sunny, Youngwook, Rick, Jiyoung (faculty)
Bottom row: Michelle (staff), Shih-Han, Siyang
The Australia Project team:

Also working on the team, but based in Osaka, is Ben (not pictured here, obviously!).
The Global Imagination team:
Here's the whole crew:
Top row: Taefun, Carl (faculty), Trent
Middle row: Linhan, Sunny, Youngwook, Rick, Jiyoung (faculty)
Bottom row: Michelle (staff), Shih-Han, Siyang
The Australia Project team:
Also working on the team, but based in Osaka, is Ben (not pictured here, obviously!).
The Global Imagination team:
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