Peter Weyhrauch

Peter Weyhrauch's professional interests include artificial intelligence, interactive entertainment, simulated virtual environments, and computational drama. He received his B.S. in computer science from M.I.T. and earned his master's and Ph.D. in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. As a member of Carnegie Mellon's Oz project research group, Weyhrauch collaborated with the school's animation group to complete his first major work, The Edge of Intention, an interactive, animated piece also known as "The Woggles"--a reference to the characters who inhabit the work's simulated world. The piece was shown at the AAAI-92 Arts Exhibition, the Boston Computer Museum, SIGGRAPH 1993, and the 1993 Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, where it received an honorable mention. Currently, Weyhrauch works on commercial versions of interactive entertainment at Zoesis, Inc., the Boston-based company he cofounded in 1996.