> 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> > _______________________________________________ > TaCforum mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tacforum
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