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Volume 50 , Issue 7 (July 2007) table of contents
Creating a science of games

COLUMN: The profession of IT table of contents

Pages: 13 - 18

Year of Publication: 2007

ISSN:0001-0782

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Peter J. Denning

Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Information processes and computation continue to be found abundantly in the deep structures of many fields. Computing is not---in fact, never was---a science only of the artificial.

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	Elisabeth R. Hayes , James Paul Gee , Ivan Games , Robert J. Torres , Kylie Peppler , Yasmin B. Kafai , Nichole Pinkard , Eric Klopfer , Hal Scheintaub , Maryanna Rogers , Karin S. Forssell , Caitlin Kennedy Martin , Brigid Barron , Wanda Eugene , Shaundra B. Daily , Ugochi Acholonu , Lori Takeuchi , Sarah Walter , Kristen Briggs, New perspectives on learning through (game) design, Proceedings of the 8th international conference on International conference for the learning sciences, p.253-257, June 24-28, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands