# Achievement Unlocked, Future Loading: ETC Turns 25

**Source**: https://etc.cmu.edu/about/news-events/etc-25th
**Parent**: https://etc.cmu.edu/

*Sep 09, 2025*

# Achievement Unlocked, Future Loading: ETC Turns 25

*By Kelly Saavedra*
[Email Kelly Saavedra](mailto:ksaavedra@cmu.edu)

For 25 years, Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) has been a playground where dreamers, builders and storytellers innovate at the intersection of art and technology. Co-founded by former CMU drama professor Don Marinelli and the late computer science professor Randy Pausch, the ETC began in 1999 as a bold collaboration between Carnegie Mellon’s College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science — built on the belief that artists and technologists could create extraordinary things together.

With a network of more than 1,000 alumni who are influencing entertainment, education and industries across the globe, this graduate program remains a premier destination for exploring emerging technologies. Through project-based work in a uniquely collaborative environment and mentorship from faculty and industry leaders, students learn by doing.

[**Read more >>**](https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2025/september/achievement-unlocked-future-loading-etc-turns-25)