Gaming Cancer, 9780262550727
Paperback
Game design meets cancer research: can we outsmart this disease?

Gaming Cancer

how building and playing video games can accelerate scientific discovery

$149.98

  • Paperback

    248 pages

  • Release Date

    3 March 2025

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Summary

Level Up Cancer Research: How Gaming Can Help Us Win

Can experimenting with game design increase our chances of finding a cure for cancer? Cancer is crafty, forcing us to be just as clever in our efforts to outfox it. We’ve made excellent progress, but is it time for a new play in the playbook?

In Gaming Cancer, Jeff Yoshimi proposes a new approach to fighting an increasingly exhausting war: putting the work of cancer research into the hands of nonspecialists, accel…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262550727
ISBN-10:0262550725
Author:Jeff Yoshimi
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:248
Release Date:3 March 2025
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Jeff Yoshimi

Jeff Yoshimi is Professor and a founding faculty member in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences and Philosophy at the University of California, Merced. His research areas include neural networks, dynamical systems theory, philosophy of cognitive science, and visualization of complex processes.

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