MIT professor on social responsibility in China's gaming culture
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Henry Jenkins  and his observations on social responsibility in Chinese video game culture.
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A Texas A&M researcher says studies showing connections between video games and violent behavior suffer from shoddy research techniques and bias. In Game|Life.
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Please step away from the slides House of Cards The second and final day of The Growth of Gambling and Prediction Markets: Economic and Financial Implications began with a very interesting session led by Ricardo Siu of of the University of Macau about whether or not gaming markets are a productive economic sector in the purely economic sense of that word: namely, are they capable of indefinite and sustainable growth?â¦
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An MIT inventor bent on public service creates practical solutions to life-threatening problems around the world. Her approach: be a master of the obvious. Second in a series profiling this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean.
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Gabe: I sort of have a reputation for being the hot headed one here at the Arcade. I think that"s probably fair to say. I have a habit of saying very mean things to people I don"t agree with. As much as I might try not to be that guy it"s just sort of become my role.
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When Penn Manor High School technology teacher Shawn Canady asked for volunteers to create interactive-learning games for first- graders, three of his students stood up.  When the task was completed hundreds of hours later, only one student was left standing: senior Rob Drummond.
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Three-day marathon man joins his ancestors A Chinese man who indulged in three-day marathon gaming session joined his ancestors after succumbing to exhaustion, the Beijing News reports.â¦
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Academics and game designers are working on ways to make games that are fun but have a serious bent too.
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Tycho: I just read through one of the conduits of Leipzig gaming news, and was jolted by a piece of news: Xbox Live is going to be moving into classic board games. I don't mean, like, Chutes and Ladders or some shit - though I don't doubt that GrowPot420 would snap that up on day one. No, I mean like Settlers of Catan and Carcassone. Pillars of the tabletop gaming community, so to speak. This is probably the biggest news of that convention for me. Getting people together to play these games, or finding people to play them with at all can be a trying endeavor. This is near Goddamn optimal.(CW)TB
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Video games improve street children's learning skills and social inclusion, Argentine researchers find out.
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Gustave Manso , a Brazilian-born finance professor who joined the faculty at MIT's Sloan School of Management this fall, is researching a problem that's not always considered a priority in executive suites: how to reward failure.
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John Maeda is a man with a lot on his mind. The MIT professor of media arts and sciences thinks about how to make technology simpler; he thinks about using the computer as a mode of expression rather than simply as a tool; he thinks about making digital art from Cheetos and sugar crystals.
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Blog: At an event at the MIT Media Lab, IBM executives and virtual world experts sketch out the potential and pitfalls of virtual worlds for business and society.
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âWalter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace,â writes Sara Rimer (New York Times). Due to MIT OpenCourseWare, the âglobal classroomâ that delivers more than 1800 courses via the MIT website, Lewin receives fan mail from students all over the world. âProfessor Lewin revels in his fan mail and in the idea that he is spreading the love of physics. âTeaching is my life,â he said.â Like to sit in on a physics course taught by Professor Lewin? You can download free video podcasts of his lectures on iTunes.
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Former Edge magazine editor Margaret Robertson cherishes games from different nations.
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Tian Zhuangzhuangâs biopic is a stately and respectful reflection on the life of Wu Qingyuan, one of the 20th centuryâs top players of go, a Japanese game said to rival chess in complexity.
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Is there a link between profitability and social responsibility? Yes, according an article in The Harvard Business Review, but ânot a strong one.â