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May 22, 2005

Learning goes to the movies...

Wonderful seat-mate conversation this afternoon, flying into Dulles, with Jerome Gary, a long-time film/TV producer/writer and screenwriting teacher at AFI. He's very much involved with something called ICT - the Institute for Creative Technologies - out of USC. They're basically doing leading edge stuff combining the best of movie-making talent and simulation training. He had heard of my book, hadn't read it, said he needed it, so I gave him a copy (I'm always loaded with one, for such circumstances).

Their expertise apparently is in creating virtual humans - java-scripted beings that, with sufficient artificial intelligence, will answer questions about why they did what they did, etc. Pretty cool. We brainstormed about having a GTD coach you can then really interact with...!

Interesting Wired article about their use in war simulation training...

Posted by David at May 22, 2005 02:55 PM