Game-Powered Machine Learning

Luke Barrington (UC San Diego), Doug Turnbull (Computer Science, Ithaca College), Gert Lanckriet (UC Sand Diego)

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) - March 2012

Team ICsquared (Ashley Alicia  '13, Evan Marinaro '13, along with IC graduates Corey Jeffers '12, and Blair Knickerbocker, '12) designed the game, Embryonic, which has made it to the United States Imagine Cup's Xbox Game Design finals. They will be flown to Seattle on April 20 - 23rd to compete for the National Imagine Cup title.

Mike Potter ’07 had one main goal when he graduated from Ithaca College: start his own company by age 25. He has done that and so much more. Potter came into IC as a Park Scholar majoring in television-radio, but he graduated with majors in television-radio, computer information systems, and business administration. “I felt it was so unique—my ability to take a class in park, my next class in the computer science department, and my following class in the business school,” he says.
 

This summer, 10 Ithaca College students will stroll down the Champs-Elysées in Paris with iPads in hand. The City of Light will serve as their classroom and the high-tech tablets their textbooks.

Three student groups have been chosen as the first-place winners of Ithaca College’s first Business Idea Competition, sponsored by the School of Business, in the categories of web service, product and software.

Three student groups have been chosen as the...