Why bring video games into the École Polytechnique?
Religiously kept under glass, video games that are more than twenty years old are just waiting to be bought by retrogaming enthusiasts, in a shop located on Boulevard Voltaire, in Paris.
RFI / Frédéric Charpentier
By: Caroline Lachowsky
2 min
Science and video games, two worlds that everything seems to separate and which nevertheless have a lot to do together.
Why and how to put science in games and play in research?
Publicity
A
new Science and Video Games Chair has been created at École Polytechnique, in partnership with Ubisoft.
Something to delight some (the most playful) and surprise others.
Is it about opening a Game Lab at l'X, one of the most prestigious schools in France?
How do researchers play the game?
What if it was time to legitimize these popular and much-maligned video games?
With
Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac
, brilliant particle physicist, passionate about video games and
science fiction author
in his spare time, he has just created a new science and video game chair at the École Polytechnique.
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