Dr. Xumin Liu (PI), Dr. Rajendra Raj (Co-PI), and Professor Tom Reichlmyer (Co-PI) have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant on their collaborative research: Developing Course Modules to Teach Service-Oriented Programming Through Exemplification and Visualization. A brief abstract follows:

All work and no play is said to make Johnny a dull boy. But the proliferation of educational video games—what professors and game industry professionals call 'serious' games—in college and graduate school classrooms and on campus suggests work and play can occur simultaneously.
 

The countdown is on... RIT-48 has begun.

Students that compete have until Sunday to pitch a plan and launch a website or mobile app. 20 teams are competing for more than $2,000 in prizes. The crazy part is that they're doing in 48 hours what takes some businesses years.

"There is not a lot of time, they are still in school and they just have to work as hard as they can. The advantage of doing this is that they can find out if something is gonna work before they go out into the real world," says RIT-48 lead Matt Gardner.

Rochester Institute of Technology is among the top video-game design programs, according to new international rankings from The Princeton Review.

RIT’s game design and development program has jumped to second at the graduate level and sixth at the undergraduate level. In 2011, RIT ranked fourth and ninth, respectively. RIT’s program is housed in the School of Interactive Games and Media within the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.