Life in BASIC
Nick Montfort and colleagues examine cultural significance of computer code in new book.
MIT Game Lab explores the potential of games and play
New laboratory opens its doors with a symposium, a festival and seven new games.
Junot Díaz wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.
Watch ‘The Story and the Algorithm’ live
Civic Media Conference to be broadcast and liveblogged at knightfoundation.org/live.
Princeton Review names MIT a top school for video game design
Undergraduate and graduate programs both lauded.
Ethan Zuckerman, cyberscholar and activist, to lead MIT Center for Civic Media
He will direct MIT's influential group of technologists and academics committed to empowering communities around the globe by inventing and testing civic media tools and practices.
Learning science through gaming
An MIT-produced interactive game, 'Vanished,' now being played by thousands online, offers a novel experiment in alternative science education.
Success stories aplenty from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media
Update from Center Director Chris Csikszentmihályi
MIT, visiting Singapore students transform games research with two more new releases
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab games delve into color theory and recursive learning.
At MIT summer program, visiting Singapore students push video game boundaries
GAMBIT Game Lab releases seven games that buck tradition.