Established 1999 Phone +1 310-574-5700 | Founded 2000 | |
Location Playa Vista, California, U.S. Address 12015 E Waterfront Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90094, USA Parent organization University of Southern California Similar Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, LMU, Center For The Digital Future at, Yo San University of Traditio Profiles | ||
Overview usc institute for creative technologies
The Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) is a research institute of the University of Southern California located in Playa Vista, California. ICT was established in 1999 with funding from the US Army. ICT was created to combine the assets of a major research university with the creative resources of Hollywood and the game industry to advance the state-of-the-art in training and simulation. The institute’s research has also led to applications for education, entertainment and rehabilitation, including virtual patients, virtual museum guides and Academy Award-winning visual effects technologies. Core areas include virtual humans, graphics, mixed-reality, learning sciences, games, storytelling and medical virtual reality.
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Usc institute for creative technologies overview
Senior Management
Randall Hill, Jr., Executive Director
Cheryl Birch, Director of Finance, Administration, and Human Resources
Clarke Lethin, Managing Director
William Swartout, Director of Technology
Directors
Andrew Gordon, Director of Interactive Narrative Research
Jonathan Gratch, Director of Virtual Humans Research
Hao Li, Director of Vision & Graphics Lab
Ryan McAlinden, Director of Modeling, Simulation and Training
Benjamin Nye, Director of Learning Science Research
David Pynadath, Director of Social Simulation Research
Todd Richmond, Director of Mixed Reality Lab/Studio + Advanced Prototypes
Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Director of Medical Virtual Reality
Paul Rosenbloom, Director of Cognitive Architecture Research
David Traum, Director of Natural Language Research
Faculty and Academics
About a dozen ICT researchers hold academic appointments at various schools and departments across USC. These include research professors, research associate professors and research assistant professors in Department of Computer Science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the Interactive Media Division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine and the USC Davis School of Gerontology.
ICT also has several post-docs and hosts university-level interns each summer.
Notable researchers include:
Sample Honors and Awards
Army Affiliation
Established in 1999, ICT is a DoD-sponsored University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) working in collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to further advance our research and development efforts for societal benefit in areas including veterans issues, mental health support, rehabilitation and job training. UARCs are aligned with prestigious institutions conducting research at the forefront of science and innovation.