August 18, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Fred Magnotta from Intel described the ongoing refinements in the tools and libraries for machine learning. The advent of big data and availability of large compute clusters has changed expectations for many data users. The combination of updated hardware platforms like the latest Xeon families, math kernel libraries…
May 7 2015, Neurogaming Converence, San Francisco—Dan Tynan from Yahoo moderated a panel on using advances in neuroscience and gaming technologies to accelerate learning. Panelists were Alan Gershenfeldrshenfeld from e-line media, Amy Kruse from Intific, Peter Hartzbeckrtzbeck from imotions, and Dhiraj Jeyanandarajan from Qneuro. Define the terms for neurogaming for education? Jeyanandariajan suggested software that…
May 8, 2014, Neurogaming Conference, San Francisco—A panel discussed gaming technologies leveraging the latest advances in neuroscience and gaming to accelerate learning. Greg Toppo from USA Today moderated the panel. Panel members included Tom Butt from BrainRush, Bruce Wexler from C8 Sciences, Jocelyn Faubert from Neurotracker, and John Cammack from Curiosityville. Is putting games into…
March 26, 2013, Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco—Four educators offered their thoughts on teaching game development. Clara Fernandez-Vara from MIT, Michael Mateas from UC Santa Cruz, Ian Schreiber, an independent developer, and Jose Zagal from DePaul offered their opinions on the state and nature of game education. Zagal started out decrying the practice of using…
September 2012 – In a recent meeting with Dr. Paul Kim at CTO for the School of Education at Stanford, we saw the latest results on their SMILE system. SMILE stands for the Stanford Mobile Inqury Based Learning Environment and is a USAID program that is sponsored by Marvell Semiconductor. The premise of the course…
March 16, 2011, IEDEC, Santa Clara, CA—Thomas Zimmerman, member of research staff and master inventor at IBM talked about the efforts to open the pipeline of students at the lower grades to consider college and engineering. His talk, “Building electronic circuits in the classroom; accessible, engaging, and educational” looked at a couple of local programs…