Discussion 0. Starting point is Welcome to Embedded. I'm Alicia White, here with Christopher White, and in studio with us this week is Kate Compton, who recently defended her computer science PhD dissertation on casual creators. Hi, Kate. Hi, thanks. Could you tell us about yourself as if we met on,. Starting point is I don't know, a cruise devoted to game design?
Well, here I am on this cruise devoted to game design. Oddly enough, I don't actually consider myself much of a gamer. I worked in the game industry for a number of years at Electronic Arts on a game called Spore and a bit on a game called SimCity. But I really wander in the worlds between disciplines. So I'm partially in game design. I'm partially in art. I'm partially in computer science and algorithms.
And I like making tools for people to get into AI. Starting point is Cool. I have this thing. I have the list of questions I was thinking about asking. Now I have even more. Let's do a lightning round where we ask you short is on FDG We rented out a cruise ship because it turns out cruise ships are actually significantly cheaper than real estate in California. Unfortunately, we weren't able to do that for many years because it turns out that people get suspicious when departments put cruise ships on government grants.
That question was actually supposed to be where have your favorite academic conferences been? And then I was hoping she would say a cruise, but apparently I just can't type. Can you recite the lyrics to or sing a computer science related sea shanty? Starting point is Sorry, I was trying to make a Dykstra pun.
They're in the song somewhere, I just don't have those memorized. Favorite spore critter? It's called the frufa.
