E. James Whitehead is

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and Chair of Computational Media at the

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, United States. He served as the Chair of the Computer Science department

from 2010 to 2014.Curriculum VitaeJim Whitehead Home Page

, USA. He received a BS in

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from the

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in 1989, and a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the

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, in 2000. Previously, he performed hard, real-time firmware development as a software engineer for Raytheon, 1989–1992. From 1996 to 2004, Whitehead created and led the Internet Engineering Task Force working group on Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning, and is considered the "father" of the WebDAV protocol. He is author on over 50 peer-reviewed articles on software engineering and

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systems, and seven

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standards (

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) documents. Whitehead led the creation of the BS Computer Science: Computer Game Design degree program at UC Santa Cruz, the first game oriented degree program within the

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system. He is also working with the

Expressive Intelligence Studio The Expressive Intelligence Studio is a research group at the University of California, Santa Cruz, established to conduct research in the field of game design technology. The studio is currently being run by Michael Mateas and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, ...

as an advisor.EIS Home Page
/ref> Jim is a professor of Computational Media, he works in research in the fields of

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evolution, software bug prediction, and automated generation of computer game levels. He is the president of the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Digital Games, the organization that sponsors the Foundations of Digital Games conference series.Foundations of Digital Games
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