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Updated 8/31: To allow for more students to attend the symposium, the MIT Game Lab is slashing the regular price to $150. With the promo code COLLABMIT for students, that makes registration $75.
The MIT Game Lab brings together scholars, creators, and technologists to teach,
conduct research, and develop new approaches for applied game design and
development. Games are a thriving field, communication medium, and industry. To
explore the possibilities of games in other industries and disciplines and
discuss the growth for games, we are hosting a symposium, Games In Everyday
Life And Why That Matters To You on September 21, 2012. It would be a pleasure
to have you both and members of the TechMedia Club at our symposium.
The symposium will feature a lecture from leading new media scholar, Professor
Henry Jenkins, the executive director of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab,
Philip Tan, and the current director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT,
Professor William Uricchio and will be followed by a keynote from visionary game
developer Peter Molyneux. Afterward, the symposium will continue with the
following four panels with leading industry professionals and games
researchers: Applied Game Research: Players, Design, and Technology, Games for
Learning, Meaningful R&D Partnerships, and Positive Game Lab Impact.
The MIT Game Lab is also excited to announce that Professor Sebastian Seung,
leading connectomics scientist (http://bcs.mit.edu/people/seung.html) and
creator of EyeWire (https://eyewire.org/), will be delivering the closing
keynote for Games In Everyday Life And Why That Matters To You.
To learn more about the MIT Game Lab and the symposium, please browse our
website and check out the opening video to learn more about our work and our
history of collaboration: http://gamelab.mit.edu/
The early registration discount for the 2012 MIT Game Lab symposium, Games In
Everyday Life And Why That Matters To You, ends on Monday September 10th. This
discount reduces registration to $300.
Registration will continue until Friday, September 14th but at $400 per
registration.
But, for students, we are offering a 50% discount. Enter the promotion code
COLLABMIT at checkout. Please register at
http://mitgamelabsymposium2012.eventbrite.com/