Below is a list of FIEA faculty and staff that could be good sources for news stories. They all have decades of experience in interactive media working with some of the world's largest gaming and film studios like Microsoft, EA, Take Two and Disney. They can discuss everything from game design, interactive entertainment and film production to game marketing, education and the emerging creative class.

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Ben Noel

Executive Director

Video game industry, role of FIEA/Digital Media in economic development, marketing development and distribution of games; future of games and films; creative class; new technologies and software and business impact; game business models; digital media education; gaming education.

Rick Hall

Production Director

Game design (in general, any genre, or for any specific platform, as well as predicting future directions), massively multiplayer online games, historical games, virtual economies and virtual real estate, where Hollywood meets games, game business models, game marketing, foreign markets for games.

Brian Salisbury

Art Director

Digital art and computer graphics, 3D modeling, digitizing, painting, texturing, character setup, animation, motion capture for games and movies.

Tom Carbone

Technical Director

All aspects of Video Game Programming including teaching and doing, math, computer science education, student recruitment.

Dr. Michael Gourlay

Research Associate

Physics, simulation, fluid dynamics, networking, software architecture.

Ron Weaver

Research Associate

Game scripting/programming, game design, rapid prototyping, narrative in games, interactive narrative, improvisation, Flash, web development, web design.

Aaron Jeromin

Art faculty

Motion capture, dynamics, particles, motion tracking, lighting, rendering, compositing, FX, texturing, image batching and automation.

John Rotolo

Network and Facilities Manager

Game studio network infrastructure, video game development hardware and software tools, game studio facility infrastructure, technology specification and purchasing, audio/visual systems and technology.