Ian Parberry
Professor
University of North Texas
USA
Biography
Dr. Parberry received his PhD in 1984 from the University of Warwick in England. Twenty of his more than thirty years experience in academia are at the rank of Full Professor. He is author or coauthor of over 100 academic publications that include six books and over 75 articles (23 as sole author) in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and workshops. Ian Parberry is a pioneer of academic game development education and research who began teaching game programming to undergraduates at UNT in 1993. The most famous alumnus of those classes is Jason West, co-founder of the Call of Duty franchise. Dr. Parberry's current research interests are clustered around game development, ranging from the procedural generation of game content to cognitive assessment of video gameplay using research methods from neuropsychology.
Research Interest
computer graphics, computer science education, data structures, design and analysis of algorithms, entertainment computing, fault-tolerant computing, game programming, game programming education, interconnection networks, load sharing, mathematical puzzles, mechatronics, packet routing, parallel computing, path planning, procedural content generation, philosophy of computing, randomized algorithms, real-time algorithms, robotics, software agents, sorting networks, video game cognitive assessment, and visualization of algorithms.