*** Research Engage Faculty
Engage faculty via traditional models of contribution: plans of work, funded release, Summer contracts, stipends, sabbaticals, etc.
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The MAGIC Center is designed to bridge the gap between research and prototyping, and the ability to bring industry polish and commercial scale and support to myriad projects. This allows these works to have wider and greater impact. For this reason, MAGIC is composed of both a research laboratory (in which many other labs and […]
*** Director Message pt1
The MAGIC Center at RIT is a conscious and deliberate effort to blur the lines between the arts and the sciences, between technology and expression, between the study of the creation of media and its impact and effect on society and the human condition. It is intended as a university wide, multi- and cross-disciplinary center […]
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The RIT MAGIC Center will lead higher education in the exploration, experimentation, design, development, and deployment of interactive, experimental, expressive and social media.
Frank Pasquale
Revitalizing the Professions in an Era of Automation Automation can be designed to complement human work and vocations, or to substitute for the humans now holding those positions. At present, the dominant trend is toward substitution. While often characterized as a dictate of economics, substitutive automation also results from a culture premised on a certain […]
Sarah Kreps
The Promise and Perils of Drone Proliferation The advent and proliferation of unmanned technologies, often referred to as drones, has offered both new opportunities but also new risks. On the one hand, supporters of the technology point to the ways that drones have helped the United States prosecute its counterterrorism mission, killing many suspected terrorists […]
Molly Sauter
Where Is the Digital Street? Abstract: The internet is a vital arena of communication, self expression, and interpersonal organizing. When there is a message to convey, words to get out, or people to unify, many will turn to the internet as a theater for that activity. As familiar and widely accepted activist tools—petitions, fundraisers, mass […]
MAGIC Welcomes Paul Hildebrandt
Save the date for Paul Hildebrandt, Senior Software Engineer and general wizard at Walt Disney Animation Studios. You won’t want to miss this! Paul will take you through the process of making of a Disney movie. He will use examples from Big Hero 6 to explain and illustrate the steps in making a movie and […]
Shannon Vallor
TITLE: The Ethics of App Development ABSTRACT: From wearable technology to self-driving cars, from social and military robotics to mobile gaming and communication apps, traditional ethical visions of human flourishing or the ‘good life’ are increasingly challenged to adapt to a rising tide of transformative technologies associated with software engineering innovation. These innovations challenge cultures, […]
MAGIC @ GDC2015
We’re heading off to the Game Developer’s Conference, showcasing some amazing games and the work of MAGIC Spell Studios! If you’re on the floor in San Francisco, please stop by and check out the talented work our students, alumni, faculty and staff. This year we are showcasing A.V., a game created by recent alumni that […]
Yannick LeJacq
Title: Games Should Be More Violent, Not Less Abstract: A question that always seems to surface in games criticism is: what do video games need to do to “get better?” The answer that’s often given, in so many words, is that they need to become less violent. Games should become more civil, or more humane, […]
Prosthetists meet Printers – MAGIC co-sponsors e-NABLE Conference at Johns Hopkins Hospital
We are pleased to announce the FIRST e-NABLE Conference!
Join us on September 28, 2014 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD!