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by Songyee Yoon (Author)
Grab the controller! Save the World!
One of the gaming industry's leading women describes how gaming can be a force for global good.
- Learn how gaming inspires Artificial Intelligence to consider everyone's perspective.
- Master tips and tricks from gaming that can be used to lead diverse and thriving business teams.
- Explore the digital worlds of Massively Multiplayer Online Games and understand why we need digital communities where all humans can participate.
So, get those thumbs flexing with Push Play to unlock your power to play.
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Grab the controller! Save the World!
One of the gaming industry's leading women details gaming's force for global good
Play is in our DNA.
We game to experiment with ideas and to learn. We play to create new worlds so we can change this one. Gaming pushes us to imagine what more we can become. In Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, Dr. Songyee Yoon, Chief Strategy Officer at NCSOFT, lays out how gaming can help us craft a better world.
The male dominance of the gaming industry, however, has kept many talented women from pursuing their passions in STEM. As a leader in the industry, Dr. Yoon shares her experience as a woman in STEM and her quest for a more diverse and equitable tech community. After all, the game only gets better with more players.
In Push Play, Dr. Yoon outlines how innovations in gaming push industries forward and create a more equitable world for all. Learn how gaming inspires Artificial Intelligence to consider everyone's perspective. Master tips and tricks from gaming that can be used to lead diverse and thriving business teams. Explore the virtual worlds of Massively Multiplayer Online Games and understand why we need digital communities for everyone.
So, flex those thumbs with Push Play to unlock your power to play.
Author Biography
SONGYEE YOON is president and chief strategy officer of NCSOFT, a global video game developer and publisher based in South Korea. Yoon graduated from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and holds a Ph.D. from MIT.
Yoon is a trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peach and previously partnered with the Center for Asia Pacific Policy and the Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy at RAND to explore equitable uses of technology. She was instrumental in founding the NCSOFT AI Center and Natural Language Processing Center created to further the company's use of AI and machine learning technology. She has been named one of the 50 Women to Watch in Business by the Wall Street Journal. She resides in the Bay Area.
