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5/5/03

SLU MATH PROF TAKING YEAR OFF TO WORK ON 'UNREAL TOURNAMENT' 

CANTON - Brian C. Ladd, St. Lawrence University assistant professor 
of mathematics, computer science and statistics, is taking a 
year's leave of absence that he hopes will be - well, unreal.
	Ladd will work at Scion Studios in Cary, North Carolina, 
for a year beginning this summer, as a programmer on two 
upcoming titles based on Epic Games' award-winning "Unreal" 
game engine. Scion Games is a subsidiary of Epic Games, which 
produces the popular "extreme" computer game UnrealTournament. 
He was offered the position after successfully auditioning, 
with a "battle chess" variant for UnrealTournament 2003, which 
Ladd wrote entirely in UnrealScript (the Unreal engine's 
language). 
	The UnrealTournament Web site describes the game as 
"the new team sport of extreme gamers" that pits a single player's 
configurable, virtual team against other teams in gladiator-style 
competitions.
	"I will be working with Epic's licensed technology to 
help it run well on non-personal-computer, or non-PC, platforms," 
Ladd says. 
	A graduate of the University of Michigan, Ladd earned a 
master's degree from Boston University/Heidelburg University 
and the Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He teaches 
courses at St. Lawrence in computer programming languages and 
computer theory. Ladd joined the faculty as a visiting professor 
in 1999.

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