Reneging on History? Playing the Court/Congress/President Civil Rights Game

The Paradox of Civil Rights

Heritage Role Playing- History as an Interactive Digital Game

Creating virtual heritage environments that intend to be both engaging and educational is a challenging process. Digital archaeological reconstruction has been concerned with exact replication of facts rather than with understanding, for the latter raises the annoying dilemma of how to present scientific uncertainty. A computer model almost invariably implies certitude, and archaeologists are s...

Playing Against the Game

Thepaperfirstoutlinesadifferentiationofplay/game-motivationsthatinclude‘negative’attitudes againsttheplay/gameitselflikecheatingorspoilsporting.Thisproblemisofparticularimportance inconcernoflearninggamesbecausetheyarenot‘played’forthemselves–atleastinthefirstplace –butduetoaninstructionalscheme.Sotheyarelikelytoprovokeresistanceamongt...

The Game-Playing Technique

In the game-playing technique, one writes a pseudocode game such that an adversary’s advantage in attacking some cryptographic construction is bounded above by the probability that the game sets a flag bad. This probability is then upper bounded by making stepwise, syntactical refinements to the pseudocode—a chain of games. The approach was first used by Kilian and Rogaway (1996) and has been u...

Playing the Festschrift Game

There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift. Lauri’s insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and linguistic rationality have spawned findings and research work in many areas, from non-standard etymology to hard-core formal linguistics...