Ken Hartsook was awarded the Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship for achievements as a Masters Student at Georgia Tech.

Sauvik Das was selected as one of two outstanding undergraduate researchers in the College of Computing.

In this Eurogamer article, Riedl suggest that, despite the challenges, procedural game plots may not be that far away.

INC Lab has two papers published in the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity: "Simulating the Everyday Creativity of Readers" by Brian O'Neill, and "Understanding Human Creativity for Computational Play" by Alex Zook (with Brian Magerko).

Mark presented the Cambot virtual cinematography system at SEIGECON'10 in Atlanta, Oct 3.

The final report to AI Magazine on the AAAI Workshop on AI and Fun can be found here.

INC lab publishes two papers in the 6th Conference on AI for Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'10). Li and Riedl have a full paper on automatic customization of game plots. Riedl and crew will also demo their mobile alternate reality game platform.

Mark Riedl's research on intelligent systems for serious gaming applications (military training and health) is featured in the Spring 2010 issue of Georgia Tech's research news periodical, Research Horizons. Read the special issue here: Serious Gaming: Entertainment Technology Yields Results for Research Ranging from Defense to K-12 Education.

Sanjeet won 2nd place in the GT computer science undergraduate research fair and 1st place people's choice award for his work on the weQuest mobile health game project. View the poster. Thanks to the hard work of the weQuest team, Sanjeet Hajarnis, Chinmay Barve, and Devika Karnik.

Mark Riedl will publish two journal articles: Narrative Planning: Balancing Plot and Character will be published in the Journal on AI Research, and Case-Based Story Planning: Creativity Through Exploration, Retrieval, and Analogical Transformation will be published in Minds and Machines.