Professor Janet H. Murray is an internationally recognized interactive designer, the director of Georgia Tech’s Masters and PhD Program in Digital Media, and a member of Georgia Tech’s interdisciplinary GVU Center.  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 5 languages, and  is widely used as a roadmap to emerging broadband art, information, and entertainment environments.

She is currently working on a textbook for MIT Press, Inventing the Medium: A Principled Approach to Interactive Design. Recent interactive design projects at 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.

In addition, she directs an eTV Prototyping Group, which has worked on interactive television applications for PBS, ABC , MTV, Turner, and other networks. She is also a member Georgia Tech’s Experimental Game Lab (EGL) and an advisor to Georgia Tech’s Mobile Technology Group (MTG).