Walter Bender has worked to empower the children of developing countries to learn using technology. The co-founder of One Laptop Per Child and founder of Sugar Labs will share his lessons with educators, social entrepreneurs and technologists during a free and open talk at 7 p.m. April 17 at Rochester Institute of Technology. Find out […]
Several faculty affiliated with the MAGIC Center made the news this week, as Associate Professor Stephen Jacobs and MAGIC Lab developer and FOSS evangelist Remy DeCausemaker were interviewed in reference to our work with Open Source Software. In addition, Associate Professor Jon Schull was interviewed for an article on hi-tech business startups and his experience […]
Red Hat Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, has made a gift to strengthen its support of Rochester Institute of Technology’s new Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC). The gift will support Professor Stephen Jacobs’ leading efforts in fostering humanitarian free and open source software work amongst RIT […]
MAGIC is on everyone’s mind at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco this week. The announcement of the Center at the panel presentation by Director Phelps (along with speakers from Northeastern, UCSC and USC) created quite a stir, as other universities are interested and engaged in the models we are proposing. The reaction from […]
FOSS@RIT, a program of the Lab for Technological Literacy, and affiliate of the MAGIC Center, participated in and supported the PyCon 2013 python conference in the following ways: Professor Stephen Jacobs, IGM Faculty Member and MAGIC affiliate participated in a panel on engaging students and faculty in Python and Open Source. Remy DeCausemaker, MAGIC/LTL Research […]
MAGIC is off to the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, CA., as a part of our partnership with the School of Interactive Games & Media at RIT. MAGIC Director Andrew Phelps will be speaking on what it takes to establish a nationally ranked games program, and several other RIT faculty will be attending and […]
Want to build HTML5 games but just not sure where to start? Let Jeff Burtoft, HTML5 Evangelist for Microsoft, show you how! IGM and MAGIC are co-hosting a half-day workshop with Jeff that will cover an overview of components, game application structures, moving from HTML5 to Windows 8 applications, and extending your game with Windows […]
The RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction, and Creativity (MAGIC), in conjunction with the College of Liberal Arts, is pleased to announce a project between RIT and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles to explore the use of games and mobile applications to assist and extend participants understanding and engagement with the […]
MAGIC would not be possible without the sustained and welcome efforts of the faculty, staff, and students of the School of Interactive Games & Media (IGM). IGM is the initial unit out of which MAGIC was born, and it is the unprecedented success and established excellence in IGM that acted in part as the precursor […]
We are pleased to announce the FIRST e-NABLE Conference!
Join us on September 28, 2014 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD!