Karen Tanenbaum is a high-level professional, who works in Tanenbaum Fabrications as a Cofounder since 2011. Karen has earned professional experience in more than 15 positions at different companies. Karen Tanenbaum went to the Simon Fraser University and received education from 2006 to 2012. Irvine, California is the city, where this expert was known to be situated. This expert's email address and number can be easily accessed through Connexy by request.
Name variants:
Karin Tanenbaum,
Karyn Tanenbaum,
Kari Tanenbaum,
Karrie Tanenbaum
Contact Information
Last Update
Jun 30, 2022
Email
ka**@gmail.com, ka**@gmail.com
Location
Irvine, CA
Company
Tanenbaum Fabrications
Workplace
Cofounder
Work History
Cofounder
Tanenbaum Fabrications is the brainchild of Karen and Joshua Tanenbaum. We are passionate about the convergence of storytelling, technology and maker culture as powerful forces for shaping t...
Jan 2011 — Mar 2019
Lead Designer and Developer, Vr Projects
Portland, OR
Interaction design, game design and Unity developer work for VR using the Windows MR and HTC Vive headsets. Educational, informational and playful experiences. At VR startup Shovels + Whiske...
from Feb 2018
Assistant Project Scientist: Research Game Developer
1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
As Assistant Project Scientist, I am participating in research focused on the application of artificial intelligence to games, with emphasis on autonomous character AI, social simulation, an...
Aug 2013 — Mar 2015
Contractor
Santa Clara, CA
1 month contract to edit a book on interactive narrative technology. 6 month contract to develop a summer workshop introducing middle school girls to Make Movement activities and ideas.
Feb 2013 — Aug 2013
Contractor
1160 Battery St, San Francisco, CA 94111
3 month contract to write for MAKE, as lead contributor to the makerfaire.com website. http://blog.makezine.com/author/karentanenbaum/
Mar 2013 — May 2013
Graduate Intern Technical
2111 northeast 25Th Ave, Hillsboro, OR 97124
I did a year-long internship with the Interaction & Experience Research group (IXR) at Intel Labs in Hillsboro, OR. I worked on a wide range of projects, including organizing and mounting an...
Dec 2011 — Jan 2013
Phd Candidate
I successfully defended my dissertation, titled "User Perceptions of Adaptivity in Ubiquitous Systems: A Critical Exploration", in November 2012. The dissertation is a collective case study ...
Sep 2006 — Nov 2012
Sessional Faculty
In Fall 2011 I taught DESN 315: 4D (Interaction) Design Core Studio at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design. This was the first year the course is running, so I did a hefty amount of co...
Aug 2011 — Dec 2011
Teaching Assistant
Courses:
IAT 100: Systems of Media Representation (Fall 2009, Spring 2010)
IAT 404/405: Design Studio II (Arts/Science) (Spring 2009)
IAT 402/403: Design Studio (Arts/Science) (Fall 2008...
Sep 2006 — Apr 2010
Programmer
Various Projects
I assisted colleagues at SFU by providing programming support for their projects. I worked in Processing to develop the Towards Utopia research project with graduate stude...
2008 — 2009
Research Assistant
Project: The Reading Glove, 2010-2012
Funding Agencies: Graphics, Animation & New Media-Networks of Centre of Excellence (GRAND NCE): Play and Performance in Game-Based Interfaces (PLAYPR)...
Jan 2007 — Apr 2008
Senior Linguist
6160 Lusk Blvd SUITE C205, San Diego, CA 92121
Senior Linguist, Parity Computing, 2005-2006
Parity is a software development company focusing on unstructured data management and knowledge discovery. I worked on their reference processo...
Mar 2005 — Jul 2006
Llba Editor
Edited abstracts and screened journals for inclusion in a linguistics database. Translated titles for foreign articles and summarized non-abstracted articles.
Feb 2005 — May 2005
Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
I was a teaching assistant for undergraduate linguistics classes: Sign Language and its culture (400 students), Cryptography (70 students) and Morphology (30 students).
In the summer of 20...
Jun 2003 — Dec 2004
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