ETC Team Photos – Spring 2014
This is an unusually large semester for us in Silicon Valley. We have 28 students with us this semester, working on four teams of seven students each.
Fall 2013 ETC Team Photos
We have two teams this semester in Silicon Valley. Zimension Zimension is building a game on the zSpace platform that takes advantage of the unique aspects of the platform, like stereoscopic 3D, head tracking, and a 6DoF stylus with haptic feedback. Chimera Chimera is creating an iPad game for the Office [...]
Spring 2013 ETC Team Photos
We have a busy semester ahead with three projects and 21 students. Project Heidegger Project Heidegger is for EA's OCCO, the goal of which is to develop a system that identifies player types with the purpose of making recommendations to gamers accurately, unobtrusively, and with a high degree of personal specificity. Bravura Bravura [...]
Student Team Photos for Fall 2012
This semester we have twenty students working on three projects out here at the Silicon Valley campus of the ETC. I usually take team photos at the beginning and end of each semester. Here are this semester's opening shots. Xenon Team Xenon Team – The team is working on a project to visualize [...]
Europe Trip 2012
Panorama of Prague from top of Petrin Observation Tower My buddy Jason and I spent two weeks bumming around in Berlin, Prague, Munich and Stuttgart in July. Rather that try and do a recap here, the full trip blog is at www.anirama.com/trip/europe2012/
Safari West
Who knew there you could go on an African safari in Northern California? We had heard about Safari West a few times from friends but hadn't looked into it until recently. Just outside of Santa Rosa, it was the perfect destination for us to take Mom for her birthday. Giraffes, cheetahs, rhinos, Cape buffalo and lemurs! [...]
1 tsp Salt?
From my 100Loaves blog. I learned that there's a 50% variance in the amount of salt you might be adding to your recipe if you use a simple tsp to measure it. It depends very much on the type of salt you use, and it can really screw up your results. More here: It's the [...]
San Francisco Fog
San Francisco Fog Did you ever wonder why San Francisco is famous for its fog? I was driving north on Hwy 280 this morning and was confronted by this. A quarter mile later and you could only see about four car lengths in front of you.
Spring 2012 ETC Students
This semester we have 17 students at ETC Silicon Valley, working on two teams. "Megalodon" is the largest team we've had yet, with 11 students on it. They are working on a project for Electronic Arts. Without giving away too much, they are developing a multiplayer game using an internally developed game engine at EA [...]
New Zealand Favorites
After big trips I like to post a few of my favorite photos from the trip. For our trip to New Zealand last month, I'm instead posting a few favorite themes. You can read the full travel blog here, or if you're just interested in the pictures, the full set is on Flickr in my [...]