The IGDA Foundation announced on Wednesday that the first recipient of the Eric Dybsand Memorial Scholarship for AI Development is Michael Kofman, an undergraduate in the Game Development program at Full Sail, in Orlando, Florida.

The scholarship, awarded in memory of Eric Dybsand, the noted AI developer, author and lecturer who passed away in 2004, is awarded annually by a panel selected by the Foundation. This year’s recipient will receive a Giga Pass to the Game Developer’s Conference, in San Francisco, California, in March of 2007.

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