Mr. Elam has recently started his own consulting firm specializing in project and program management (focus on research), strategic planning and partnerships, and complex systems engineering. Prior positions include Executive Director for new Strategic Initiatives at Baylor College of Medicine, Associate Dean of Engineering for Research at Rice University, Executive Director of the Computer and Information Technology Institute at Rice University and Sr. System Engineer/Architect and Program Manager at IBM (19 Years) supporting such program as the NASA Earth Observing System, DOE's Superconducting Super Collider, and the DOD's Joint Training Analysis Simulation Center (JTASC). Mr. Elam is well-known for his expertise in non-computer gaming history, game design and mechanics, and has interest in games in education and the role of serious games in training and decision support. He has one of the largest non-computer game collections in the United States.
Favorite Serious Game:
GoVenture
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At 6:28pm on December 18, 2008, Laura Gibson said…
Hi Tony!
Since graduating from Rice, I've moved to China, then France, and now the Netherlands where I've joined the space community. I was at a space conference here yesterday and mentioned games as a teaching method for decision makers as well as for outreach. The speaker thought I was absolutely nuts, but a man from IBM over here came up to me afterwards and told me that they are working towards an international conference for serious gaming, and I thought of you straight away!
Does your Rice email address still work? At any rate, Djeevan Schiferli is arranging everything and it's apparently going to be super cool...
I'm supposed to be in better touch with him tomorrow, but thought I'd give you his contact information in the mean time.
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Since graduating from Rice, I've moved to China, then France, and now the Netherlands where I've joined the space community. I was at a space conference here yesterday and mentioned games as a teaching method for decision makers as well as for outreach. The speaker thought I was absolutely nuts, but a man from IBM over here came up to me afterwards and told me that they are working towards an international conference for serious gaming, and I thought of you straight away!
Does your Rice email address still work? At any rate, Djeevan Schiferli is arranging everything and it's apparently going to be super cool...
I'm supposed to be in better touch with him tomorrow, but thought I'd give you his contact information in the mean time.
His email address is: schiferli@nl.ibm.com