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Walt Scacchi
Dr Walt Scacchi is a senior research scientist and research faculty emeritus in the Institute for Software Research, and past research director (2013–18) of the Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games, both at the University of California, Irvine. He also serves a principal scientist at Investable Games Technology Inc. in Newport Beach, CA. He received his Ph.D. in information and computer science from UCI in 1981. He was previously on the faculty at University of Southern California (1981–98) before joining ISR in 1998. His research interests include computer game culture and technology, open source software development, open cybersecurity, computational and virtual world models of complex organizations and intellectual property. He is an active researcher with more than 220 publications, has directed more than 70 externally funded research projects and produced/directed development of more than twenty serious games and game-based virtual worlds. More information can be found at