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Find your future building AMD's next generation
Expanding charity the Wellcome Trust's reach or designing games based on Magic: The Gathering.
Frank Lantz on NYU's game design degree
The Drop7 designer tells us why NYU Game Center's new MFA programme will redefine our understanding of videogames.
Teachers criticise parents who ignore game age restrictions, call for industry legislation
The association's general secretary Mary Bousted has said that students are being allowed to stay up till early morning, playing games inappropriate to their age, and are becoming desensitised to aggression and bloodshed. She also raised a more general concern that the time children could spend interacting with friends or playing outdoors was being eaten into by an over-exposure to screen-based entertainment, harming their long-term development and education. More >
4Nottingham Trent calls for ITAG submissions
Nottingham Trent University has issued a first call for submissions ahead of this year's Interactive Technologies And Games (ITAG) conference. The event, which runs as part of Nottingham Trent's annual GameCity festival, will focus on issues of accessibility and rehabilitation for peopel with disabilities through interactive technology and games. More >
UKIE laments computer science drop-off
Next Gen Skills, the cross-industry coalition formed by UK trade association UKIE which seeks to promote the study of computer programming skills, says there are 17,000 fewer students of computer science in UK universities than there were a decade ago. More >
University profile: The Guildhall at SMU
Texas's marquee graduate-level game programme is serious business.
1City profile: Houston
The largest city in Texas has a keen interest in the potential of serious games.
Dare to be Digital applications open
75 contestants from 16 universities, split into 15 teams, will each have 9 weeks to complete a working game prototype. Three of the teams will win a Bafta 'Ones to Watch' award. Applications must include a pitch for their game idea and a panel of judges will then shortlist potential teams for interview. More >
Out There: Do MMOGs need death?
Pining for the loss and consequence of Ultima Online, plus the death of the games and art argument.
1Easy as Raspberry Pi
How a tiny box of tricks is helping David Braben in his mission to foster a new generation of game makers.
1Only a third of ICT teachers are qualified - study
As government clears the way for computer science in schools, the Royal Society highlights lack of suitably skilled teachers.
2Gove scraps ICT and opens door for computer science
Education secretary says government is "revolutionising ICT as we know it," but does it go far enough?
This week's opportunities on Edge Jobs
Find your future kickstarting others' at the University of York or creating the next generation of graphics hardware at ARM.
Vaizey: compulsory computer science remains an "open question"
In an interview with The Guardian Vaizey exercised caution, pointing to the UK government's ongoing review of the national curriculum - the findings from which are to be published next year - and the Department for Education's upcoming technology strategy for schools report. More >
2Gove backs computer science to replace ICT
UK secretary of state for education Michael Gove has thrown his weight behind calls for computer science to replace ICT in the national curriculum. Speaking to students from Catmose College in Leicestershire at the ICC in Birmingham last week, Gove said: "I think one of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing rapidly all the time." More >
Students win $100,000 with Kinect
A pair of US high school students were yesterday awarded a $100,000 college scholarship for using Kinect to analyse human walking patterns in a project that could ultimately be used in the design of prosthetics for amputees. Ziyuan Liu and Cassee Cain, seniors at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, won the Team Prize at the Siemens Competition, an annual awards ceremony designed to promote the study of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). More >
Shaking up the curriculum with Raspberry Pi
David Braben on the dumbing down of computer science education.
Government supports Braben's Raspberry Pi
The UK government has given a ringing endorsement of Raspberry Pi, the low-cost computer that David Braben hopes will kickstart a new wave of interest in programming. In its response to the Next Gen skills review, the department of culture, media and sport writes: "The government recognises the potential developments such as the Raspberry Pi computer project have for stimulating and motivating children to understand basic computer science in schools." More >
Government backs call for computer science in schools
Ian Livingstone welcomes "very encouraging" pledge to ensure students are better prepared for careers in hi-tech industries.
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