Mark Claypool

		Professor, Computer Science Department
       Director, Interactive Media and Game Development Program
		   Worcester Polytechnic Institute

As any online gamer knows, latency (or lag) can kill a good game (no
pun intended).  Studying the effects of latency and coming up with
clever ways to deal with it is my favorite research problem.  The
effects of other systems settings, such as frame rate, frame
resolution and graphics settings, on game play and playability are
also quite interesting. My overall research interests include
multimedia networking, congestion control, and network games.  For
games, I like First Person Shooter games and Real-Time Strategy games
on PCs, Beat-'em Up games on consoles, and Sports games on hand-helds.