If you remember, I wrote a post about Virtual Environments in Xbox LIVE a while back for the Xbox Engineering Blog. This time, I’m glad to share a new article co-authored between my friend/co-worker John McPherson and me regarding how game developers are able to enable custom, game-specific features for Xbox LIVE using something called XLSP! [...]
Happy post-tax day! As some of you may know, I work on the Xbox team at Microsoft. Last month, I wrote a blog for our team’s Xbox Engineering Blog on our virtual environments and how our engineers go about developing and testing Xbox LIVE features. Check it out! http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/engineeringblog/virtually-xbox-live.htm
My friends and I were interested in video game console security so for Information Warfare in Spring 2008, we decided to research into hacking consoles. It was a fun project and learning about Xbox hacking from Bunnie’s book was cool along with the work I’d done before on emulating gameboys. Hopefully you’ll find it interesting [...]
Another research I did in Spring 2008, this time on the graph isomorphism problem. It is an interesting problem that is yet unknown to be whether in P or NP-Complete so I worked on trying to come up with a polynomial time solution and tried various different approaches that other people seemed to not have [...]
Another course I took in Spring 2008 was about Religions of China, and I was intrigued by the death rituals in China and the cultural differences reflected between late imperial Chinese death rituals and medieval Christian funerals so I read up on the experts and analyzed it. Download Article
I learned about Latin America and U.S. relations in Spring 2008, and one of the things that really popped out at me was Carmen Miranda and her Chiquita Bananas image. So I decided to research about her and how the image of Latin America in the United States developed. Download Article
I did research in Spring 2008 for Music and Society on video game music, taking a step back from the classical and contemporary music analysis. It’s an interesting read and it might help some of you out there doing your own research on video game music. Download Article
