College of Computing faculty member Mark Riedl's papertitled "Toward Intelligent Support of Authoring Machinima Media Content:Story and Visualization" received the Best Paper award at the 2ndInternational Conference on Intelligent Technologies for InteractiveEntertainment (INTETAIN) at Playa del Carmen, Cancun Mexico. The conference wasorganized in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and took place January 8-10,2008.

Mark Riedl joined the School ofInteractive Computing as an Assistant Professor in December 2007. Prior to that,he was a research scientist at the University of Southern California Institutefor Creative Technologies. In 2004, he received a Ph.D. in Computer Sciencefrom North Carolina State Universityfor his work in artificial intelligence techniques for generating stories withrecognizable plot structures and character fidelity.

About INTETAIN
The Second International Conference on IntelligentTechnologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN-2008), held in cooperationwith ACM SIGCHI, aimed to stimulate interaction among academic researchers andcommercial developers of interactive entertainment systems. It focused on thedevelopment of novel user-centered intelligent computational technologies andinteractive applications for entertainment, being made possible through the useof a wide range of interactive device technologies and media deliveryinfrastructures.