Posts tagged mit 
MIT catches Brawl fever with newest 'hack'
The students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are once again showing off their gamer cred with an on-campus prank (or "hack," as those princely nerds like to call it). This time, it's in honor of the release of Smash Bros. Brawl, a modest little Wii title that you may or may not have ...
The best thing you'll see today: John P. Harvard goes Halo
var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/xbox_360/MIT_Halo_Prank_John_P_Harvard_goes_Halo_PIC'; As you may already know, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a long history of pranking (or hacks, as they call them) both on their own campus and at other schools. Though there have been some real ...
Scratch teaches game programming, commenting etiquette
We here at Joystiq are big proponents of teaching via video games. That's why we were happy to stumble across Scratch, a super simple programming language created by researchers at MIT. Using an incredibly intuitive drag-and-drop interface, Scratch gives you all the tools you need to make simple ...
Henry Jenkins has a blog (and a new book)
Erudite academic and advocate for all things gaming, MIT Professor Henry Jenkins has started a blog titled "Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins." Now you can finally trash all those unofficial Henry Jenkins fansites from your RSS feed, cause this one's official. With ...
MIT prof. Henry Jenkins talks gaming, look at him go
GameSetWatch launches their new interview column with a bang, featuring a lengthy chat with Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies program and Full Professor of Literature at MIT ... oh yeah, and an influential advocate of gaming. They cover divergent topics from his background in ...
