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New Fund Created To Help Black And Indigenous Students Get Into Gaming And Tech


New Fund Created To Help Black And Indigenous Students Get Into Gaming And Tech
USC Games has created a new fund honoring Jerry Lawson, the father of cartridges in gaming; Take-Two made a significant donation.
May 6, 2021 at 7:00AM PDT
A new fund has been established to support Black and indigenous students trying to break into game development and the technology space at large. USC Games has announced the Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund for Black and Indigenous Students, and Grand Theft Auto parent company Take-Two Interactive is one of its earliest supporters.
In a press release, USC Games said Take-Two made a significant seed contribution to the fund, though a specific dollar amount was not disclosed. ....

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Gaming in colour: uncovering video games' black pioneers | Games


Ed Smith, computer and video games pioneer, with his Imagination Machine in 1981
Jerry Lawson led the invention of cartridges, Ed Smith made a hybrid console/PC, and designer Muriel Tramis won France’s highest honour for bringing history into play. How many more names are forgotten?
Wed 5 May 2021 04.30 EDT
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In the 1970s, in the fledgling days of the video games industry, an engineer named Gerald “Jerry” Lawson designed one of the earliest game consoles, the Channel F, and also led the team that invented the game cartridge, a defining innovation in how games were made and sold. His son, Andersen Lawson, recalls that he was often working on gaming projects in the garage of their family home in Santa Clara, California. “There have been conversations recently about the struggles he might have had that were related to his colour,” he says. “Was it difficult [for him]? Yes, I’m quite certain. B ....

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