Walker White

Walker White is a senior lecturer of computer science and a Stephen H. Weiss Provost's Teaching Fellow. A mathematical logician by training, White studied computable model theory for his thesis work, and then moved onto the design of high-level languages for databases and information systems. More recently, White has combined his professional research in databases and query languages with his hobbies in gaming and game design. He is the director of the Game Design Initiative at Cornell, which he helped launch in 2001 as one of the first official computer game programs of its kind and the first such program established at an Ivy League university. In his role as director, he leads Cornell’s undergraduate minor in game design. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics and a master’s in computer science from Cornell, and a bachelor’s in mathematics from Dartmouth.