Nowadays I have a shaved head rather than too much hair...
I used an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund a trip north
to
MIT's Lab for Computer Science.
Great place, but my interests didn't fit well, so I moved on with an
MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Then I went to the
Naval
Postgraduate School, and did my PhD in
computer science on networked virtual environments.
I kept researching and teaching with the NPS MOVES Institute, and in 2000
we proposed the Army Game
Project. I served as designer, producer, and
lead engineer, which is more fun than it sounds. Millions of folks
played, which admittedly can't be said
about my research!
In late 2002, Epic Games made me an
offer that I couldn't refuse: to move home to Raleigh and start a new
game company, Scion Studios. I
was fortunate to build a fantastic team, and we eventually merged Scion
with Epic. Now I'm the luckiest guy in the world, President of Epic
Games.
Take a look at my latest project, Gears of War. I also have a
fledgling blog starting, check it out. And
I have a myspace page,
because, well, that's how the internet works.
Through the magic of forwarding, I can still be reached by email at capps
(at) cs.unc.edu.
