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OSTP Studying Benefits of Video Games

February 3rd, 2012

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)USA TODAY is out this week with an interesting article featuring the work of MacArthur Foundation Fellow Constance Steinkuehler, an Assistant Professor in the Educational Communications & Technology program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — who’s on assignment for 18 months as a Senior Policy Analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to study video games that improve health, education, civic engagement and the environment, among other areas.

According to the USA TODAY piece:

If you’re training for a new job someday soon with a video game controller in your hands, thank Constance Steinkuehler.

 

This summer, when your kids’ favorite science museum boasts a new augmented-reality environmental simulation? Same deal.

 

If in the next few years a video game teaches you anything — how to conserve energy, eat a balanced diet or solve quadratic equations — consider the invisible hand of one of the most unconventional White House hires in recent memory.

 

Steinkuehler studies video games. Since last September, she has been a senior policy analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she’s shaping the Obama administration’s policies around games…

 

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DARPA Announces Proposers Day for New PERFECT Program

January 31st, 2012

DARPA announces Proposers Day for new PERFECT program [image courtesy DARPA].The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) has announced a Proposers Day for a new program — Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) — to introduce the research community to the PERFECT vision and goals, and to facilitate interaction and coordination among prospective PIs and technology developers. The Proposers Day will take place on February 15, 2012, in Arlington, VA.

The PERFECT program seeks to “provide the technologies and techniques to overcome the power efficiency barriers that currently constrain embedded computing systems capabilities and limit the potential of future embedded systems.” Importantly, a key component of this is resiliency, an area for which a recent CCC visioning activity on Cross-Layer Reliability led by Andre’ DeHon, Nick Carter, and Heather Quinn proffered a research roadmap.

From the Proposers Day announcement (following the link):

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“Go Viral to Improve Health”

January 30th, 2012

The 2012 Go Viral to Improve Health Challenge [image courtesy IOM/NAE].The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have partnered to launch the “Go Viral to Improve Health” Health Data Collegiate Challenge, designed to spur undergraduate and graduate students to create health-related apps. The contest is aimed at students pursuing degrees in health, engineering, and computer science. And the prize for the winning team is $10,000.

According to the Challenge website (after the jump):

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