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Academics Can Be Fun and Games

One of the highlights of my working career was being paid for a week to play computer games (we were setting up gaming servers for an internet company). It can take “days” to get those things right. Now I read you can study computer gaming as part of a degree – we had to pretend we were only playing them to study the implementation of algorithms when I was an undergrad.

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