[Sci-tech-public] Technology and Culture Program on On-Line Gambling

[meinbres]

> GAMBLING: FACE TO FACE OR INTERFACE?
> Wednesday, October 17
> Location 10-250 from 7:00-9:00pm
>
> SPEAKERS:
> Ben Mezrich, 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
> Dr. Natasha Schüll, 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)
> Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack, founder and coordinator of the Computer
> Addiction Service, McLean Hospital; faculty, Harvard Medical School
> Moderator:
> Dr. Christopher M. Kelty, Visiting Assistant Professor of The
> History of Science, Harvard University
> 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?
> 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.
>
> This program is free and open to the public; no registration is
> required, but seating is first come, first serve.  For more
> information, please go to <http://web.mit.edu/tac>
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