Many of the projects funded lead to additional grant awards and the development of valuable long-term relationships between international researchers and MIT faculty and students. The new grant is part of the Global Seed Funds (GSF), MISTI's annual grant program that enables participating teams to collaborate with international peers, either at MIT or abroad, to develop and launch joint research projects. MISTI and AHSF recently celebrated the first round of awardees in a virtual ceremony held in Amman and the United States. The MIT-Jordan Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Seed Fund is providing awardees with financial grants up to $30,000 to cover travel, meeting, and workshop expenses, including in-person visits to build cultural and scientific connections between MIT and Jordan. Get in touch by emailing our first names at this domain.MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), together with the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation (AHSF), the cultural and social responsibility arm of the Arab Bank, recently created a new initiative to support collaboration with the Middle East. Let us know if you can’t find us on your preferred RSS app and we’ll sort you out. If you’re old school cool and still use an RSS Reader then our feed is. His only known weaknesses are bacon and orange juice. Luckily, Craig doesn’t really like videogames, and so he has never realised his talents to outright dominate Split Screen.Ĭraig has a Masters in Physics which he uses in his day job as an arms dealer, designing orbital lasers and other futuristic weapons. He can always be relied on to find a time wasting YouTube link from the seventy open web browser tabs on his laptop. He’s an imaginative and resourceful guy: he will often disappear for a few hours and come up with a stunning Five out of Ten layout that is life-affirming and humbling.

Maybe he’s just a regular renaissance man – what version of Photoshop did Da Vinci use, again? Whether it’s recording music, beautiful page layouts, or forging info-graphics from tenuous correlations, Craig Wilson is a modern renaissance man, even if he stubbornly uses Photoshop CS2 when I’ve paid for Creative Cloud. What impresses me most is his staggering creative output has never dipped in quality. I don’t know where he gets his energy from or why that amount of coffee hasn’t killed him yet. Since I first met this young scrappy, tech writer (shortlisted as Best Critic in Guardian’s Student Media Awards in his day) I’ve witnessed the evolution from student writer to student editor to website founder to magazine founder to published book author to invited speaker attending national videogame conferences to invited speaker who can’t attend international videogame conferences to apparent illuminati member. To say that Alan is like a simile making machine addresses only one aspect of his skilled writing I’ve enjoyed for several years now.īut in truth his insightful, witty writing is no longer what impresses me most. We launched the videogame culture magazine Five out of Ten in 2012, but Split Screen is the place that started it all. We are now a lot older and a little wiser. Over the years, we’ve brought you features like Metacritique, our annual Screenies, Retrocity, the long-running Reality Check series, our not-award-winning-but-we-still-like-it podcast. We eschewed the traditional notion of news, reviews, and all that bullshit we don’t want to write and you don’t want to read. Split Screen is a blog about videogames, movies, friendship and life, by Alan Williamson and Craig Wilson.įounded in 2010, our aim was to create a ‘different’ games blog… just like everybody else.

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