Event

Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney Presentation on Gaming Technology Innovations

Thursday, March 29, 2012
5:00 p.m.
1202 Martin Hall
Cornelia Kennedy
301 405 1364
ckennedy@umd.edu
http://www.enme.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=6247

Former ME student Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, who was recently inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) Hall of Fame will give a presentation on gaming technology innovations. Sweeney, a native of Potomac, MD, is responsible for a number of important gaming innovations, including the well-known Unreal game engine, the critically acclaimed series Gears of War, and the landmark text-based game ZZT. Martin Rae, AIAS President, remarked on Sweeney’s important contributions to the gaming industry: “Tim’s vision has changed the face of gaming with the advent of the unreal engine and the commitment of Epic, as a studio, to bring both consumer and industry-facing technology to new heights.”

In 1991, while a student at Maryland, Sweeney founded Epic - then known as Potomac Computer Systems - in Rockville MD. In an interview with gaming website Gamasutra, Sweeney commented on his undergraduate education at Maryland: “…the math courses were immensely useful. There are some things you just don’t know you need to know until you know them.”

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