bio

Anton Eliens studied art, psychology, philosophy, and computer science. He graduated cum laude in theoretical computer science, and published his Ph.D. thesis on the design, implementation and semantics of the distributed logic programming language DLP as a text book. He also published a book on object-oriented software development, of which the second edition has been translated in Russian and Chinese.

Anton Eliëns is lecturer at the Computer Science department of the Faculty of Science of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he teaches multimedia courses, including serious games. He was coordinator of the Master Multimedia for Computer Science, and assisted in developing the Creative Technology curriculum of the University of Twente,

where he was appointed as a professor in New Media.

His current interests are focused on the promotion of the interactive media-platform, XIMPEL, that is now being applied

for (serious) educational games and his latest project: campaign(s) against noise.