Plan for Chris "Hobbiticus" Weiland

Trying something new and getting paid to do it!

After two grueling semesters this past year, it's finally summer again. It's a shame that I havn't been involved as I wanted to be in making games, but the worst seems to be behind me. However, this summer I still can't seem to escape academia.

Instead of interning at GarageGames again this summer, I decided to go a little bit more local and take up a research position at Towson University in Maryland. Although games are what I truely want to do, but I still have another year before I can get fully involved in them, and this should be a very interesting program.

The program is the Research Experience for Undergraduates and consists of 7 other undergraduates from all over the nation and is funded by the Navy Research Lab. My particular project is in computer vision, developing a face recognition system. So, instead of taking data and creating an image, I'm taking an image and extracting data. So it's a little change of pace for me, but interesting nonetheless.

This year is also my last year of colege and luckily should be pretty light on work as I only have to take 12 credits each semester, so hopefully I can get back into making games again.