Mark Claypool
Professor
Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
United States of America
Biography
Education: BA Mathematics Colorado College Magna Cum Laude 1990 MS Computer Science University of Minnesota 1993 PhD Computer Science University of Minnesota 1997 Mark Claypool has been a professor of Computer Science and Interactive Media Game Development at WPI since 1997. Mark has a B.A. in Mathematics from Colorado College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers and written two books on computer games. He has chaired several ACM conferences on networks, games and multimedia and served on the technical program committee for over 35 of them. His research interests include multimedia networking, congestion control, network games and information filtering.
Research Interest
Multimedia Networking; Network Games; Wireless Networking; Congestion Control; Information Filtering
Publications
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Mark Claypool. Dragonfly - Strengthening Programming Skills by Building a Game Engine from Scratch, Computer Science Education - Special issue on Games in Computer Science Education, Taylor and Francis, Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 112-137, June 2013.
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Thangam Seenivasan and Mark Claypool. CStream: Neighborhood Bandwidth Aggregation for Better Video Streaming, Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 70, Issue 1, Pages 379-408, 2014.
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Mark Claypool, David Finkel, Alexander Grant and Michael Solano. On the Performance of OnLive Thin Client Games, Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ) - Special Issue on Network Systems Support for Games, pages 1-14, February 2014.
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Brett Levasseur, Mark Claypool, and Robert Kinicki. Impact of Acknowledgments on Application Performance in 4G LTE Networks, Springer Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 85, Number 4, pages 1-26, July 2015.
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Mark Claypool, Artian Kica, Andrew La Manna, Lindsay ODonnell, and Tom Paolillo. On the Impact of Software Patching on Gameplay for the League of Legends Computer Game, Springer Computer Games Journal, pages 1-29, 2017.
