Join us at the Media Lab to hear from MIT alum Alvin Graylin as he discusses his upcoming book Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World. This event will be a chance to hear Alvin's thoughts about his work, AI, and how to head towards a future better for all.

This event is open to members of the MIT community only; the registration form is linked here.

Alvin Wang Graylin (汪丛青) is a recognized technology pioneer, entrepreneur, executive, and thought leader with 30+ years of experience delivering innovative products in the AI, XR and semiconductor industries. He is the co-author of Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse will Reshape the World, published by Hachette Book Group. Having built his foundation in VR research at the Human Interface Technology Lab over 30 years ago, Alvin has also developed his expertise in AI and Natural Language Processing after extensive studies at the University of Washington and MIT.

In his recent professional journey, Alvin served as the China President of HTC (2016-2023) and continues to contribute as Global VP of Corporate Development at HTC, a global leader in the VR/AR space. His commitment to the immersive computing field is further reflected in his roles as Vice-Chairman of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA), President of the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), and co-head of the ViveX VR Accelerator.

Alvin's entrepreneurial spirit is evidenced by his founding of four venture-backed startups in areas ranging from AI-based natural language search, mobile social to big-data AI analytics, across China and the US. His broad operational experience also includes global P&L roles at multinational corporations like Intel, Trend Micro, WatchGuard Technologies, and IBM.

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We don’t buy furniture anymore; we consume it. Every year, millions of tons of furniture items are sent to landfills while more are made to replace them. The furniture industry contributes 2% to global CO2-equivalent emissions, which is at least as much as the aviation industry. Designer and climate tech entrepreneur Andrea Quiros-Balma talks about the ways technology can be used to decarbonize this industry and change the way we shop for durable goods. Avenues for more sustainable futures will consider carbon accounting, digital twins, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and image recognition in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of goods.

Register for this MIT Horizon webinar.

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Using technology to eliminate hidden emissions of the furniture industry

For Researchers Considering a Technology-based Startup

Explore taking your new technology to the marketplace Get entrepreneurial training, support to identify customers Learn how to apply for $50,000 from the NSFIncrease your chances of receiving an SBIR/STTR awardClick here for more details

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MIT Game Lab, with support from MIT MindHandHeart, hosts Games Against Oppression a series of game playing sessions for MIT Faculty and Staff focusing on board, card, and role-playing games that center the fight against oppression by designers representing historically oppressed groups including women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

We invite MIT Faculty and Staff across the Institute to play with us and our invited designers!

No prior experience with these or other board games is assumed or required. In this unique experience, the designer has been shipped with the box to teach our participants how to play in an engaging way.

We will also have drop-in sessions for participants to play related games within our game library, with teaching support by MIT Game Lab staff and students.

We have limited spots available for lunch panel discussions each day, to informally discuss the games and topics at hand.

Our Designers and their Games:

Tory Brown



Tory Brown is the designer of Votes for Women, an award-winning card-driven board game about the American Woman Suffrage Movement and the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Inspired by the 70 year effort to build one of the most effective political movements in American history, in her day job Tory is an experienced activist working on campaigns across the progressive movement for the last 20 years. She hopes anyone who plays Votes for Women will be inspired to become part of a cause that is greater than themselves and dedicated to the rights and dignity of all people. 



Votes for Women captures and celebrates the democratic struggle by inviting players to join the suffrage movement, organize support, and campaign for victory across the 48 states that were called to ratify the 19th Amendment in 1919-1920. The card-driven game can be played cooperatively, competitively, or in solitaire mode, and in each version players must navigate the historic events, movement schisms, and political challenges of the era to win. 

The deck of over 100 stunning cards feature period art, portraiture, and historic documents and include event instructions that can either be played or discarded to campaign or organize their side of the issue. Campaigners move across the map to build political power with a roll of the included dice that will determine whether each state votes to ratify the amendment or opposes the Vote after three eras of play. Dig deeper into the history and maneuver through the critical choices that suffragists faced for a chance to guarantee equal franchise for all and win Votes For Women!

Cole Wehrle



Cole Wehrle is an ex-academic who decided to abandon the lucrative field of Victorian studies in favor of game publishing. He works as the creative director at Leder Games in Saint Paul and is best known for the award-winning game Root, which uses a children's book aesthetic to explore the politics of police states and insurgency. Root and its expansions have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and have been translated into nearly twenty languages. He is also the cofounder of Wehrlegig Games with his brother Drew Wehrle, which handles the publication of his historical games which cover subjects related to his academic work including state formation in 19th century Afghanistan (Pax Pamir), the rise and collapse of the British East India Company (John Company), and queer communities in the early 18th century (Molly House, designed with Jo Kelly).



In John Company, 2nd Edition, players assume the roles of ambitious families attempting to use the British East India Company for personal gain. The game begins in the early eighteenth-century, when the Company has a weak foothold on the subcontinent. Over the course of the game, the Company might grow into the most powerful and insidious corporation in the world or collapse under the weight of its own ambition. Unlike most economic games players often do not control their own firms and will collectively guide the Company in ways that benefit their own interests. However, the Company is an unwieldy thing. It is difficult to do anything alone, and players will often need to negotiate with one another as they work to secure their power abroad and their place in fashionable society at home. 



In Molly House, players take the roles of the gender-defying mollies of early eighteenth century London. Throw grand masquerades and cruise back alleys while evading moralistic constables who seek to destroy your community. Be careful, there may even be informers in your midst! Over the course of a couple hours, players will draft hands of vice cards representing the different gestures, desires, and encounters that were frowned upon by the Society for the Reformation of Manners, a citizen group that sought to stamp out any behavior it deemed deviant in late 17th and early 18th century London. These cards allow players to host festivities with the help of their fellow mollies and create joy. But, those same cards can also lead players to be arrested and to the ultimate ruin of the molly house. As players encounter the Society’s enforcers, they will often have to pay bribes or may be coerced into becoming informers for the Society. Informers must try desperately to undermine the community around Mother Clap’s Molly House without being discovered by their fellow mollies.

Non-Breaking Space

Non-Breaking Space builds game models with an emphasis on actor agency. The games put players into positions where the decision space closely resembles that of the actors represented. This allows them to place the impacts of their choices into a context relative to the topic being modeled.  Their games provide players with the opportunity to understand the underlying dynamics at play in complex historic and contemporary situations, at a fidelity that compliments modern scholarship.



Cross-Bronx Expressway from GMT Games looks at the history of the South Bronx New York during the second half of the twentieth century to investigate the impact the first roadway project to cut through an urban center had on life in the area. Three factions - Public, Private and Community - attempt to navigate the area through the most tumultuous period, hoping to avoid bankruptcy and prevent the disenfranchisement of the population.

Everfair, based on the book of the same name by Nisi Shawl, is an alternate steampunk history of Leopold's Congo Free State. It posits the possibility of an international group working with the indigenous peoples of the Cong. They must work together to first resist Leopold and colonial rule, with the hope of building a free and independent African nation before the Great War. Everfair is a cooperative game for four players.

Worker Placement: Under the Table is the first volume of the Worker Placement series which looks at the life of individual workers. Players in Under the Table lack the appropriate documents for legal work, but still must survive their everyday challenges and achieve their individual goals. If they can save enough they may be able to get the documents they need to get a job legally. Worker Placement: Under the Table is a solo game with multiplayer modes.

Popcicleta

Popcicleta is a game design collective that makes culturally engaging games about issues affecting Puerto Rico to be played by families, activists, and the broader public. In the Summer of 2018, Mikael Jakobsson, Rik Eberhardt and Aziria Rodrigez led an ideation and concept development workshop at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico and a design workshop at MIT. At these events, Puerto Ricans, game designers, students, and others interested in counter-colonial game design shared their ideas and experiences, and created game concepts. After the workshops, Mikael and Rik continued developing and playtesting one of the concepts and in 2020, Graphic Novel artist Rosa Colón joined the team to work on illustrations and graphic design for the game Promesa. 



Promesa  is a cooperative board game for all ages about the debt crisis in Puerto Rico. One to six players take on the role of the local government in Puerto Rico with the task of getting rid of the debt before the archipelago succumbs to natural catastrophes. Players make strategic and tactical choices about investments in infrastructure, education, and social services while trying to keep the debt from spiraling out of control.

Schedule

Sign-ups are required to guarantee a spot at the table when playing with designers, but drop-ins will have opportunity to see the games in action or play games from our library!

Tuesday, May 28

12-1pm Lunch (limited to 20)

1-3:30pm Session 1
  Votes for Women
  John Company
  Cross-Bronx Expressway
  Promesa

3:30-6pm Session 2
  Votes for Women
  Molly House
  Everfair
  Promesa

Wednesday, May 29

10am-12:00pm Session 3
  Votes for Women
  John Company
  Cross-Bronx Expressway
  Promesa

12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch (limited to 20)

1:00-3:30pm Session 4
  Votes for Women
  Molly House
  Everfair
  Promesa

3:45-6:00pm Session 5
  Votes for Women
  Molly House
  Worker Placement
  Promesa

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As computers continue to automate more routine tasks, AI education is a key enabler to future opportunities where success depends increasingly on intellect, creativity, empathy, and having the right skills and knowledge. Being digitally literate is no longer sufficient in the era of AI.

Join us at the Boston Marriott Cambridge as we explore creative ways to include AI education in the classroom in the hopes of making learning more effective. Our summit will feature expert speakers, an AI ‘Open House’, and presentations by our Global AI Hackathon challenge champions.

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MIT AI & Education Summit

What is GameLoop?

GameLoop is a user-generated conference on game development. It is open to professional game devs, hobbyists, students, critics, journalists, and anyone else interested. We strongly encourage groups typically underrepresented in game development to attend.

The best compliment we've gotten is that GameLoop is like a day full of all the best hallway conversations you'd have at GDC, but without the giant price tag and hit-or-miss sessions.

For $50 (plus the Eventbrite fee) you get:

Great conversations with other knowledgeable game devs about topics you want to discussThe full day unconferenceA light breakfastA full lunchA great t-shirt 

What's a User-Generated Unconference?

An unconference is an event where, first thing that morning, people discuss what topics they want to cover. People then pitch those topics as sessions. Then everyone gets to vote on their favorite session! The moderators (Oleg Brodskiy & team) then review all the votes, creating the schedule for the day.

The sessions are usually in a free-form roundtable discussion format. There's a lot of back and forth. And if you want to keep talking about that topic after the session ends, you just move the conversation to the hallway.

 

Is GameLoop worth it?

This will be the 11th in-person Boston GameLoop that we've run, and the 13th overall in Boston; usually we have about 125+ participants. Many of those folks are repeat attendees. Devs from as far away as San Francisco attend, and we've had devs from big-name studios like Harmonix, BioWare Montreal, and Bethesda Game Studios; we've also had devs from super-awesome indie studios like Dejobaan, Popcannibal, and Zapdot.

For the third year, GameLoop is setting aside passes exclusively for women, non-binary, genderqueer and/or trans people, indigenous, biracial and/or people of color, and neurodivergent people, and/or persons living with disabilities. We want to make space for traditionally marginalized, undervalued, and invisibilized identities in the games industry in order to create a safe, welcoming, diverse, and inclusive event. We want to hear your voices and this is a small way we can make that happen.

If you'd like to know more about what it's like to attend GameLoop, check out David Evans' blog post. There are also some great pictures out there.

 

What kind of sessions usually happen?

Last years sessions included talks about: 

UI and Accessibility Staying Motivated as an Indie DeveloperPro-Social GamesNeurodivergency in Game DevGrowing Pains for TeamsGetting a Job in the Game Dev Industry Game ProductionCross Discipline Collaboration Being LGBTQ+ at Work 

Ticket Tiers

General Pass

A one-day general pass to GameLoop! Open to all.Inclusivity Pass

A one-day pass set aside for women, non-binary, genderqueer and transgender people, indigenous, biracial and people of color, neurodivergent and/or person living with disabilities/impairments (non-visible included).Sponsor A Pass!

Buy a general pass for someone in financial need! The pass will be given out to an underprivileged person to attend GameLoop! By contributing, you directly help bring new voices to the event who could not otherwise attend.You can apply for a sponsored pass here.Donate!

Make a donation to help fund the upcoming and future GameLoop events! 

Logistics

Date: Saturday August 3rd, 2024Location:Schedule:9:00am: Doors open! Breakfast is served! (Please show up as close to here as possible, we get cracking at 9:30am.)9:30am-11am: Opening meeting where we getting to know each other's shared interests, propose and informally vote on sessions, and put those on the Big Board11:20am: First session!1:30pm: Lunch!6:00pm: Last session ends. We have a wrap-up meeting, head out for dinner. 

Harassment

PLEASE NOTE: By registering for GameLoop, you agree to our abide by our Anti-Harassment Policy.

 

Thank you to our sponsors!

Interested in sponsoring? Email gameloop@bostonfig.com!

And our hosts, the MIT Game Lab!

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Boston GameLoop 2024

2024 Kuggie Vallee Lectures

September 24-25, 2024

Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)

Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, Stanford University

Erin Schuman, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

In honor of the Foundation’s co-founder, Kuggie Vallee, and in order to inspire young women to continue a career in science, the Vallee Foundation has established a prestigious annual series of Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lectures. These Lectures are designed to highlight major successes made by women in the biomedical sciences and are given at institutions around the world where Vallee Visiting Professors and Young Investigator Awardees are affiliated. The Kuggie Vallee Distinguished Lecturer gives a public lecture about her own science and, over a period of several days, meets more informally or in workshops with other faculty at the host institute to talk about women in science and career building.

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Kuggie Vallee Lectures: Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, Stanford University and Erin Schuman, PhD, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research

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🍷 Savor the Flavors of South Africa! 🌍. . . . Indulge in an exquisite journey of taste with Wines of South Africa! Join us for a spectacular wine tasting event where every sip tells a story of rich history, diverse terroirs, and unparalleled craftsmanship.. . . . 🍇 Explore the vineyards of the Cape Winelands without leaving your glass as you sample a curated selection of South Africa's finest wines. From crisp Chenin Blancs to velvety Pinotages, there's something to delight every palate.. . . . 🎉 Whether you're a seasoned oenophile or a curious novice, our knowledgeable guests will guide you through an unforgettable tasting experience, sharing insights into each wine's unique character and the vibrant culture behind it.. . . . 🌟 Mark your calendars and join us for an evening of elegance and discovery. Reserve your spot now and elevate your wine journey with Wines of South Africa. Cheers to new adventures in every sip! 🥂
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