Ken Perlin and the NYU Media Research Lab: Decades of Interactive Innovations
Ken Perlin, a computer science professor at NYU and director of the Media Research Lab,…
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How Multiplayer Games Can Serve as Self-Teaching Programming Environments
The dream of any educational software developer is to create a self-teaching system. In standard…
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Who was Mary Flanagan? The Creative Mind Behind Tiltfactor Laboratory
To understand the creative spark behind the RAPUNSEL project, one must look at the work…
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Closing the Gender Gap in Tech: Lessons Learned from the Hunter College and NYU Collaboration
The gender gap in technology is not a new problem, but the way we address…
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The Intersection of Play and Coding: Inside the Networked World of RAPUNSEL
What happens when you turn programming into a multiplayer game? Long before Minecraft or Roblox…
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Rethinking Computer Science Education: How RAPUNSEL Taught Java to Middle Schoolers
Teaching computer programming to middle school kids has always been a tough nut to crack.…