Alternate reality game pioneer Elan Lee on Media Space - Wednesday, October 26 at 9 p.m.
This new program from UWTV and the Masters of Communication in Digital Media is hosted by award-winning TV correspondent and UW Professor Hanson Hosein. Media Space engages thought leaders on the hottest issues of the digital media age -- technology, entrepreneurship, community and entertainment. Scheduled to appear during the series are industry trend-setters like Ben Huh of the Cheezburger Network, Elan Lee of Fourth Wall Studios, Kate James of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and web entre
Media Space - Episode 2: Elan Lee, Founder/Chief Designer at Fourth Wall Studios
One of the inventors of the alternate reality game genre, Elan Lee has spent his career finding and sharing ways to extract adventure from the world around us. In this episode of Media Space, Lee discusses his pioneering breakthroughs in the area of entertainment and immersive gaming. Lee started his career at the Microsoft Games Studio before co-founding 42 Entertainment - the company behind I Love Bees, Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero, and The Dark Knight.
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Chris Marshall, curator of the OSU Arthropod Collection
Chris Marshall from OSU's College of Science and curator of the university's arthropod collection takes us on an early morning journey to find an elusive scarab, a northwestern rain beetle.
These beetles only appear during the first winter rains in the Pacific Northwest, spending the bulk of their lives underground.
Join Chris and see if he can locate a rain beetle burrow.
Bolivia fuel hike sparks protest
Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of La Paz to protest against the government's decision to slash fuel subsidies, sending prices soaring.
The Future of Aid: changing paradigms and challenges in 2010 at ANU
Dr Patrick Kilby, Dr Colin Filer and Professor Stephen Howes take part in this discussion entitled 'The Future of Aid: changing paradigms and challenges in 2010', at The Australian National University on 12 October, 2010.
The rise of China as a major aid donor has challenged the very relevance of Australian aid operations. Particularly, Papua New Guinea has been embracing China's dominance as a way to remove itself from Australian Aid. Further, the backlash against the IMF and its structural ad
Quest Software's Azure Services In this interview, Dmitry Sotnikov (Director of Cloud Solutions) and Einar Mykletun (Security and Compliance Architect) from Quest Software discuss building Quest’s new OnDemand product line – cloud-based IT management services to help IT professionals manage their on-premise Active Directory and server infrastructure. We talk about what it took to build the services on top of the Windows Azure platform, focusing specifically on security. Quest is an early adopter of the Windows Azu
Stephen Toub: Task-Based Asynchrony with Async Stephen Toub goes deep into the design and architecture of the new Async features in C# and VB.NET, which rely heavily on .NET’s Task Parallel Library. You can get an early look at this new async programming model, available as the Async CTP, today!
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Mads Torgersen: Inside C# Async Mads Torgersen, C# specification lead, describes the new C# features to improve asynchronous development. You can get an early look at this new async programming model, available as the Async CTP, today!
Presidents attend Kirchner wake
South American leaders pay respects for former Argentine president, Nestor Kirchner
Retailers try early holiday start
American retailers are offering discounts weeks ahead of the traditional start to the holiday buying season in a bid to lure shoppers earlier than usual.
The British Museum: Ancient India
A site mainly geared to upper grades or middle school but very useful for early undergraduate classes, too. Provides excellent overview of Chinese culture with lots of visuals and interactive lessons.
British Museum: Ancient China
A site mainly geared to upper grades or middle school but very useful for early undergraduate classes, too. Provides excellent overview of Chinese culture with lots of visuals and interactive lessons.
The British Museum: Mesopotamia
A site mainly geared to upper grades or middle school but very useful for early undergraduate classes, too. Provides excellent overview of Mesopotamian cultures with lots of visuals and interactive lessons.
Improving the Sales Force
Professor Lynette Ryals discusses research, carried out in collaboration with Silent Edge, relating to improving the sales force, linking sales meeting behaviour to sales success.
POL310 Fall 2010 Session 8
POL310 American Government Session Eight 10/30/10 Brenda Riddick
Guests: Jeff Reichert, Gerrymandering, Gabriella Holt, Citizens for California Reform
The Legislative Branch: Structure of Government
Although the basic tenet of American government is that ultimate power lies with the people, to ensure that no one branch of the government becomes too powerful, the Framers of the constitution established a series of checks and balances. This four minute overview gives some background to the Constitution and the balance of powers. Tries to be a bit clever.
U.S. voters deliver midterm verdict
American voters head to the polls in elections that could see Republicans take control of Congress, and scupper Barack Obama's legislative agenda.
Building the Brain: Art Installation
Watch as contemporary Spanish artist Daniel Canogar gathers materials that he will use in the creation of an enthralling walk-through installation for the American Museum of Natural History's upcoming exhibition Brain: The Inside Story. Canogar's installation is made up of a canopy of moving lights representing billions of firing neurons inside the human brain.
Brain: The Inside Story is an amazing and stimulating exhibition that will give visitors a new perspective and insight into their own
