Microsoft, NYU aim to woo preteens to math, science
PC World | at | by Mike
Microsoft is teaming up with New York University and other universities to launch an institute to research how gaming can be used to encourage U.S. middle-school students to take an interest in math and science.
During a speech at NYU in Manhattan Tuesday, Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie will unveil the Games for Learning Institute, a joint effort between Microsoft Research, NYU, Columbia University, the City University of New York, Dartmouth College, Parsons, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, the Rochester Institute of Technology and Teachers College. The institute will have a research lab on site at NYU that will be co-directed by Ken Perlin, a professor at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Jan Plass, an associate professor in NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at NYU.