Why bring video games into the École Polytechnique?
Audio 48:30
Religiously kept under glass, video games that date back more than twenty years are just waiting to be bought by retrogaming enthusiasts, in a shop located on Boulevard Voltaire, in Paris.
RFI / Frédéric Charpentier
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
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?
(Replay of October 19, 2020)
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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