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Dr. Michael J. Gourlay works as a Senior Software Engineer in interactive entertainment. He previously work at Electronic Arts (EA Sports) as the Software Architect for the Football Sports Business Unit, as a senior lead engineer on Madden NFL, on character physics and the procedural animation system used by EA, on Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), and as a lead programmer on NASCAR. He wrote the visual effects system used in EA games worldwide and patented algorithms for interactive, high-bandwidth online applications. He also developed curricula for and taught at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA), an interdisciplinary graduate program that teaches programmers, producers and artists how to make video games and training simulations. He is also a Subject Matter Expert for Studio B, and writes articles for Intel on parallelized fluid dynamics simulations for video games. Prior to joining EA, he performed scientific research using computation

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Dr. Michael J. Gourlay works as a Senior Software Engineer in interactive entertainment. He previously work at Electronic Arts (EA Sports) as the Software Architect for the Football Sports Business Unit, as a senior lead engineer on Madden NFL, on character physics and the procedural animation system used by EA, on Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), and as a lead programmer on NASCAR. He wrote the visual effects system used in EA games worldwide and patented algorithms for interactive, high-bandwidth online applications. He also developed curricula for and taught at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA), an interdisciplinary graduate program that teaches programmers, producers and artists how to make video games and training simulations. He is also a Subject Matter Expert for Studio B, and writes articles for Intel on parallelized fluid dynamics simulations for video games. Prior to joining EA, he performed scientific research using computation

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AlgorithmsAnimationFootballMartial ArtsMechanicalPhysicsProcedural AnimationQuantumResearchScientific ResearchSoftware DesignSportsTrainingVideoVideo Games

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