<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Patricia Weinmann <<A href="mailto:weinmann@MIT.EDU">weinmann@MIT.EDU</A>></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">October 11, 2007 1:33:57 PM EDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:tacforum@mit.edu">tacforum@mit.edu</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>[TaCforum] Program on On-Line Gambling</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.6px;"><B>GAMBLING: FACE TO FACE OR INTERFACE?</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Wednesday, October 17</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Location </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=10&Buildings=go"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#003896">10-250</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"> from 7:00-9:00pm</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><B>SPEAKERS:</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.benmezrich.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><B>Ben Mezrich</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;">, Independent Journalist - author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down The House: The True Story of Six M.I.T. Kids Who Took Vegas for Millions (soon to be a major motion picture, 21, starring Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne), and the upcoming Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.sarweb.org/scholars/scholars/individuals/scholars02-03/schull03.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><B>Dr. Natasha Schüll</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;">, MIT - Associate Professor, Program on Science, Technology, and Society, MIT; author of Machine Life: Control and Compulsion in Las Vegas (published by Princeton University Press in 2008)</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.computeraddiction.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><B>Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;">, founder and coordinator of the Computer Addiction Service, McLean Hospital; faculty, Harvard Medical School</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><B>Moderator:</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.kelty.org/or/cv-kelty.pdf"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><B>Dr. Christopher M. Kelty</B></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;">, Visiting Assistant Professor of The History of Science, Harvard University</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;">How do casino gamblers devise systems for beating the odds, and how do gambling industry designers engineer chance to make the odds unbeatable? How does a technological interface change the experience of gambling? Is screen-based gambling about risk or escape?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Come hear Ben Mezrich describe how MIT students “brought down the house” playing live blackjack in Las Vegas. Natasha Schüll will show how gamblers are brought down by the house through the design of electronic gambling machines. Maressa Hecht Orzack will talk about her experience treating online gaming and gambling addiction. Join us for this engaging discussion on the culture of gambling in America and the ways that new technologies are changing it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This program is free and open to the public; no registration is required, but seating is first come, first serve. 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