# Institute for Creative Technologies **Domain:** Military research institutions **Doc Type:** Developed Organization Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition The **USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)** is a University Affiliated Research Center founded in 1999. It combines simulation, artificial intelligence, interactive storytelling, learning science, and entertainment-industry methods for U.S. Army and other Department of Defense applications. ## Significance ICT is unusually direct evidence for the bidirectional military-entertainment membrane: the Army deliberately joined academic research with Hollywood and game expertise to build immersive training, while resulting techniques and personnel circulated beyond defense. ## Sources - USC ICT, [About Us](https://ict.usc.edu/about-us/) - USC ICT, [ICT Turns 25: Hollywood, the DoD and ICT](https://ict.usc.edu/news/essays/ict-turns-25-hollywood-the-dod-and-the-ict/) ## Routes [[wiki/Military-Entertainment Complex|Military-Entertainment Complex]] · [[wiki/America's Army|America's Army]] · [[wiki/SIMNET|SIMNET]]