Georgia Institute of Technology

Janet H. Murray

Areas of Expertise

• Media Convergence
• Interactive Television
• Game Design
• Interactive Narrative
• Information Design
• Digital Media and Education

Janet H. Murray is an internationally recognized interactive designer and the director of Georgia Tech's Master's and PhD Program in Digital Media.

She is the author of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (Free Press, 1997; MIT Press 1998), which has been translated into five languages and is widely used as a roadmap to emerging broadband art, information and entertainment environments.

Murray is currently working on a textbook for MIT Press, Inventing the Medium: A Principled Approach to Interactive Design.

Recent interactive design projects include a digital edition of the Warner Brothers classic, Casablanca, funded by NEH and in collaboration with the American Film Institute; and the InTEL Engineering Education Project, funded by NSF (http://intel.gatech.edu).

In addition, she directs an eTV Prototyping Group, which has worked on interactive television/mobile/game applications for networks such as PBS, ABC , MTV and Turner; for convergence technology leaders such as Alcatel Lucent and Cisco/Scientific Atlanta; and marketing pioneers such as nurun/ant farm. She specializes in advanced narrative structures for art, entertainment and information design.

Murray holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University, trained as a systems programmer with IBM, and before coming to Georgia Tech taught humanities and led advanced interactive design projects at MIT from 1982-1999.

In spring 2000 Murray was named a trustee of the American Film Institute, where she has also served as a juror for the AFI Awards and a mentor in the AFI Digital Content Lab. Murray is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and in spring 2008 she was appointed to the Board of George Foster Peabody Awards. Next Generation Magazine has named her as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Games.

More information about Murray's work can be found at http://lcc.gatech.edu/~murray