Before his talk last week as part of the Duke Provost's Lecture Series, I had the opportunity to conduct a brief interview with Professor Jonathan Zittrain.

Games are too valuable and important to be left only to game studies and platform studies.

The National Economic Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are asking for public input for a new initiative intended to address the challenges of the 21st century. The initiative, which would be similar to the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) Grand Challenges for Engineering program, would help catalyze innovations to spur economic growth, encourage multidisciplinary collaborations and improve STEM education. Responses are needed to help identify specific challenges, potential partners and models for the program.

Please comment below with your questions and ideas or send me a message! If it works out, the interview would be published here on the HASTAC scholar blog, and you would be credited for the question.

Panel: Games and Storytelling
Wednesday, 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., 2010-2-17
Memorial Hall, UNC-CH, CHAT festival

I attended the first day of UNC's CHAT Festival yesterday. (C.H.A.T. stands for "Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology.")  After an introduction by Chancellor Holden Thorp, we heard an opening keynote by Robbie Bach, President of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division.

Who wants to have some fun? Seriously.