THE WORK OF PLAY; Mom, I want to major in video games; Parents may think it's a joke, but schools are serious -- and the field is seriously lucrative.
The Thukrals wanted their son, Dhruv, to go into nanotechnology. So when he told them he'd rather be a video game developer he might as well have said he wanted to join the circus. "Are you serious?" they asked. He was. The 21-year-old USC graduate student proved it by switching the focus of his computer science doctorate from a field known as distributed systems to video game programming. He then launched a campaign to convince his parents back home in New Delhi that helping people have fun was...
10/20/2008 12:00:00 PM
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