Who invented video games?
The history of video games goes back decades — dating back to the dawn of computing itself.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is the author of How Pac-Man Eats (2020) and a Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, a technical and cultural research group, with Michael Mateas.
He has also authored or co-edited five other books on games and digital media for the MIT Press, including The New Media Reader (2003), a book influential in the development of interdisciplinary digital media curricula.
Noah's collaborative playable media projects, including Screen and Talking Cure, have been presented by the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Krannert Art Museum, Hammer Museum, and a wide variety of festivals and conferences.
Noah holds both a PhD (2006) and an MFA (2003) from Brown University.
