
  Excellent to see that the MIT Sloan 
Business in Gaming (BiG) Conference is dialing up for delivery on May 8th, 2009.  All about the future of Gaming, a multi-billion US$ economic sector with long MIT roots, including...
- First Computer Game in MIT Lab
 - First Video Game in MIT spinoff company
 - Creators of games such as Ms Pacman and more
 - Alum Founders of Looking Glass, MaK, Turbine, Harmonix, etc
 - Professor Jay Forrester's Urban Dynamics model is behind Will Wright's SimCity
 - Creators of first Management Flight Simulators like Beer Game and People's Express
 
  See also 
Changing The Game by Edery & Mollick.  P.S.  I just happened upon Erica Naone's 
Game Theory piece in 
Technology Review which goes into depth on several of these historic MIT ties!
 
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