Industry committee  I'd say about two-thirds of our students are recent graduates, and the other third are 5, 10, 15, even 20 years out. It's one of those long tails where you have a bunch of people at the beginning, and then it kind of peters out. I think that's a very healthy environment. It's ver

Industry committee  We need to think carefully because obviously there will be enormous benefits, but there are also risks. Robots and such are things to watch carefully because of their impact on the labour market and all that sort of thing. You know that story of the wise man who saves the king a

Industry committee  Actually the reference to young men playing video games presumably in their mothers' basements is a misrepresentation of the video game market in Canada and around the world. The typical gamer in raw numbers is a woman over age 50. Casual and social games dominate the market. So

Industry committee  I think the competition is global. There is really not much stopping you from building a video game studio in any country in the world, as they are all growing that way. Canada has an advantage through our ties to the entertainment industry in the United States and Europe, and

Industry committee  Amazingly, they almost all stay in Canada. It's an incredible story. I think this was part of the plan of the B.C. video game industry: we hoped to attract people and keep them here. We've been very successful at that. This is a great country and people come here from China, fo

Industry committee  You could probably take your list of the Hoover Dam, the space program, and automobiles. If anything like that were to be built today, it would be built first in a virtual way, in a 3-D model on a computer screen, and then realized perhaps in miniature with a 3-D printer, and the

Industry committee  Personally, I've had to limit my research because of the administrative load of running the program, but we do maintain some limited research by virtue of our connections to our four partners. We are the national headquarters for something called GRAND, which is a federally funde

Industry committee  Yes. I called our projects industry projects, but in fact about a quarter of those industry projects are sponsored by research scientists, who use their research dollars to get our students to build things either at the front end of research—so tools, as you say, to unfold protei

Industry committee  The projects are paid and we have in-kind as well as a cash contribution that the industry actually pays, which helps cover the cost of the space and the instructors, and that sort of thing, and the equipment that the students might need. I regard this as a major indicator of ind

Industry committee  Well, because it's a one-year program plus an internship, it's effectively both. It's a year, and other than their internship student fees that are about $600, it's for the entire program.

Industry committee  Yes, that is a master's degree. But it's a one-year master's degree.

Industry committee  They tend to move into positions in about the $50,000-to-$60,000 range, mid-entry level positions, and then move up fairly quickly. Our students are typically earning about $80,000 to $90,000 within two years.

Industry committee  We have a scholarship program.

Industry committee  Yes, I had one student work for CSEC after graduation. It isn't a major focus of ours. We tend to focus on the part of digital media that's fun and entertaining. But, on the other hand, a key component of what we do is getting diverse groups of people to work effectively together

Industry committee  We have a stable financial model for our school. We have an endowment that helps support the school, and the tuition carries the remainder of the burden. Our tuition is probably too high. Interestingly, it's regarded as a reasonable price or a good price by Americans, Europeans,