Is this the dream course for many a slacker? From the website's syllabus description:
"The Msc in Computer Science (Interactive Entertainment Technology) is a one-year course, directed by Dr Steven Collins (co-founder of Havok) and has been designed in collaboration with Microsoft, Demonware, Radical Entertainment and other leading game industry companies. The programme immerses students in a state of the art learning environment, including the Microsoft sponsored XNA Gamelab, featuring Xbox360 systems and multi-core PCs with DX10 GPUs per-student, with classes given by leading researchers in computer graphics, vision, networking and distributed systems, where students use the latest hardware, software tools and technologies, as used by professional game development companies.
The modules making up the first half of the year cover topics including:
- Software Engineering for Concurrent and Distributed Systems
- Data Communications and Networks
- Graphics and Console Hardware and Real-time Rendering
- Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Agents
- Real-time Animation and Physics
- Vision Systems and Augmented Reality
- Numerical Methods and Mathematical Modelling..."
Better get your skates on though -- applications close at the end of the month. More information here.
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