The Center for Games and Playable Media is a part of the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Cruz. The center houses the school's five games-related research labs including the Expressive Intelligence Studio — one of the largest technical game research groups in the world. UC Santa Cruz faculty involved in computer game research include Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Marilyn Walker, Jim Whitehead, Arnav Jhala, Sri Kurniawan, Warren Sack, Soraya Murray, James Davis, Kimberly Lau, John Funge, and Daniel Friedman.