ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program -- is a pioneering graduate department in the study and design of new media, computational media and embedded computing under the umbrella of interactivity. The department encourages students to create new forms of communication through the exploration of social applications, physical computing, interactive games, multimedia art, sound, video and much more while focusing on user interaction. Founded in 1979, the department has come of age in a time of profound change in the technologies and capabilities available for expression and communication.