{"id":3097,"date":"2015-01-31T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/?page_id=3097"},"modified":"2016-04-29T00:07:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T17:07:01","slug":"spacewar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/?page_id=3097","title":{"rendered":"Spacewar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> 12 noon \u2013 1 pm, Thursday the 12th of February 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> PC420, Pentcost, International College<br \/>\nDan Edwards was studying Artificial Intelligence at MIT in the early 1960&#8217;s when he helped write what many consider to be the first &#8220;video&#8221; game: <a title=\"Spacewar!\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spacewar_%28video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\">Spacewar!<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Dan will be speaking at Payap University on Thursday the 12th of February from 12 &#8211; 1pm in room PC420 (4th floor of the Pentecost Building) about the early days of computing and gaming at MIT.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3099\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dec.pdp-1.two_men_playing_spacewar.102631264.lg_.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3099\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3099\" src=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dec.pdp-1.two_men_playing_spacewar.102631264.lg_.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Edwards (left) and Peter Samson playing Spacewar! on the PDP-1 Type 30 display (Source:  Computer History Museum)\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dec.pdp-1.two_men_playing_spacewar.102631264.lg_.jpg 500w, https:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/dec.pdp-1.two_men_playing_spacewar.102631264.lg_-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Edwards (left) and Peter Samson playing Spacewar! on the PDP-1 Type 30 display (Source: Computer History Museum)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the day we will have the original code running on a PDP-1 emulator with some <a href=\"http:\/\/tomtilley.net\/projects\/spacewar\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;vintage&#8221; game controllers<\/a> so you can come and try your hand at Spacewar!<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0Photos<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 92px;\" width=\"795\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_3175\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dan-Edwards.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3175\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3175\" src=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dan-Edwards-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Edwards with the Payap PDP-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Edwards with the Payap PDP-1<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_3178\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/seminar1.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3178\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3178\" src=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/seminar1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dane Edwrads talking\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Edwards talking about computing at MIT in the 1960&#8217;s.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_3179\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/seminar2.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3179\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3179\" src=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/seminar2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"seminar participants\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants at the seminar<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_3176\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/playing1.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3176\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3176\" src=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/playing1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Students playing Spacewar!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students playing Spacewar!<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_3177\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/playing2.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3177\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3177\" src=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/playing2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Students playing Spacewar!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students playing Spacewar!<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_3173\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/controllers.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3173\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3173\" src=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/controllers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Spacewar! controllers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two &#8220;retro&#8221; Spacewar! controllers made by Dr Tom.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_3174\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dan-Edwards-and-Dr-Tom.jpg\" rel=\"wpdevart_lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3174\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3174\" src=\"http:\/\/iit.payap.ac.th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dan-Edwards-and-Dr-Tom-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Edwards and Dr Tom Tilley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Tom presenting the controllers to Dan<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When: 12 noon \u2013 1 pm, Thursday the 12th of February 2015 Where: PC420, Pentcost, International College Dan Edwards was studying Artificial Intelligence at MIT in the early 1960&#8217;s when he helped write what many consider to be the first&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":2316,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3097","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spacewar! 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