[Purple-Blurb] Noah Wardrip-Fruin Monday, 3 other great speakers in November

[Nick Montfort]

After being on break last Spring and have two special summer events, the 
Purple Blurb series is back this semester with a great Fall 2009 Lineup: 
Noah Wardrip-Fruin from UC Santa Cruz, Mary Flanagan from Dartmouth, D. 
Fox Harrell from Georgia Tech, and Marina Bers from Tufts.

Note that our first event, a talk by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, is *this* Monday 
at 6pm!

Once again, Purple Blurb offers readings and presentations on digital 
writing by practitioners of digital writing. All events are at MIT in room 
14E-310, Mondays at 6pm. All events are free and open to the public. The 
Purple Blurb series is supported by the Angus N. MacDonald fund and 
Writing and Humanistic Studies.

Noah Wardrip-Fruin
September 14 ... Noah Wardrip-Fruin is author of Expressive Processing: 
Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies (MIT Press, 2009), 
co-creator of Screen (among other works of digital writing), and assistant 
professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of 
California, Santa Cruz.

Mary Flanagan
November 2 ... Mary Flanagan is author of Critical Play: Radical Game 
Design (MIT Press, 2009), creator of [giantJoystick], and author of 
[theHouse] (among other digital writing works). She is Sherman Fairchild 
Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth.

D. Fox Harrell
November 16 ... D. Fox Harrell is the creator of the GRIOT system for 
computational narrative and author of several works in this system, 
including Loss, Undersea and The Girl
with Skin of Haints and Seraphs. He is assistant professor of digital 
media in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the 
Georgia Institute of Technology.

Marina Bers
November 30 ... Marina Bers is author of Blocks to Robots: Learning with 
Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom (Teachers College Press, 2007) 
and creator of the system Zora. She is associate professor in the 
Department of Child Development and adjunct professor in the Department of 
Computer Sciences at Tufts University.

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