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Raising Your Security Expectations
Dr. Ian Lane Davis, CEO, Mad Doc® Software,
Appointed to Board of Directors for ECD Systems, Inc.
Marstons Mills, Mass. February 1, 2005 – ECD Systems, the technology leader in protecting valuable PC game
assets during entire product life, announced today that Dr. Ian Lane Davis, CEO of Mad Doc® Software, LLC, has been appointed to the
Company’s Board of Directors.
“Piracy of digital content continues to plague the PC game industry at all stages of the development process. ECD’s Digital Armor TM offers substantial
improvement in the fight against piracy,” stated Dr. Davis. Dr. Davis is widely acknowledged as one of the top artificial intelligence experts in games.
His direct game credits include Dungeon Siege®: Legends of Aranna™ (2003), Microsoft Game Studios; Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest™ (2002),
Sierra Entertainment; Jane’s® Attack Squadron (2002), Xicat Interactive; and for Activision Publishing, Inc., Star Trek®: Armada II™ (2001), Call to
Power II (2000), Star Trek®: Armada™ (2000), Civilization®: Call to Power™ (1999), Battlezone® (1998), Dark Reign: Rise of the Shadowhand™ (1998),
and Dark Reign: The Future of War™ (1997). The Mad Doc team is currently completing the highly-anticipated Empire Earth® II for Vivendi Universal
Games, slated for release Early 2005.
Dr. Davis is active in the gaming community and serves as a Peer Panel Leader for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Peer Panel for
Gameplay Engineering. Recently appointed to the Journal of Game Development Editorial Board, Davis is a highly sought speaker who presents in
academic and game focused venues and has been interviewed for online, print and television media.
Currently authoring the definitive AI and games textbook for academic and industry training along with academia’s top AI researchers, Davis earned
his doctorate in Arti