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News and Events
2019
	2019 Nov	Presenting at National Summit on Adult Literacy
	2019 Nov	UT Southwestern: Key Note Speaker U-Hack Med 2019
	2019 Oct	XPRIZE: Presenting at Visioneering Summit
	2019 August	Tech Titans: Tech Titans Inventor Award Winner
	2019 August	Patent Filed: Image Analysis Using Machine Learning and Human Computation
	2019 August	Applied Cognitive Load Theory and Difficulty Analysis for Educational Game Paper Published
	2019 August	$1.5MM NSF Grant for Teaching Computer Science and Computational Thinking with Minecraft
	2019 August	KRLD: Locally Made Video Game Helps Adults Read
	2019 August	Paper Published at IEEE 6th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)
	2019 August	Daily Republic: SMU gaming app aims to teach millions of U.S. adults who can’t read
	2019 August	Mobile App Daily: SMU gaming app aims to teach millions of U.S. adults who can’t read
	2019 August	Phys.org: SMU gaming app aims to teach millions of U.S. adults who can’t read
	2019 July	Dallas Morning News: SMU gaming app aims to teach millions of U.S. adults who can’t read
	2019 July	Dallas Innovates:Esports Meets Education: UIL Considers Proposal to Sanction Competitive Gaming in Texas High Schools
	2019 July	Dallas Business Journal: TechTitans Finalist Announced
	2019 July	Retina Minute: Can Dry Macular Degeneration Be Diagnosed Through Video Games?
	2019 June	Corey Clark Speaking at Big Data and AI Conference
	2019 May	SMU: Gamers Help Fight Cancer
	2019 May	NBC: Playmaker Helps Fight Cancer
	2019 April	SMU: Hongjin Yu Wins at Research Day
	2019 April	OU: Collaborate to Cure, 3rd Annual OU-OUHSC Biomedical Engineering Symposium
	2019 March	KERA: Award-Winning Smartphone Game ‘Codex’ Is Teaching North Texans To Read
	2019 Feb	CBS: Learning to Read Late in Life: There’s An App For That
	2019 Feb	Dallas Innovates: Meet the Innovator Corey Clark
	2019 Feb	Dallas Innovates: SMU-LIFT Game Design Teams Wins 2.5M in Adult Literacy XPRIZE Competition
	2019 Feb	Corey Clark Featured as a North Texas Innovator
	2019 Feb	KERA: SMU-LIFT Team Wins Multi-Million Dollar Grand Prize
	2019 Feb	SMU and LIFT Win Grand Prize for Adult Literacy XPRIZE
	2019 Jan	Corey Clark Guest Lecturing at UT Southwestern Radiation Oncology Department
	2019 Jan	Corey Clark is featured in the “26 Innovators Who Are the Future Today” article in Dallas Innovates Magazine’s 2019 edition.
2018
	2018 Dec	Karl Csaky to present at 6th International OCT Angiography and Advances in OCT Congress
	2018 Nov	Dallas Business Journal Named Corey Clark 1 of 20 Health Care Innovators You Need to Know
	2018 Sept	Check out this MMO Games interview of Dr. Corey Clark discussing HEWMEN and the use of games in medical research.
	2018 Sept	Dr. Corey Clark was part of a feature panel at PAX West!
	2018 Aug	Dallas Business Journal interviews Corey Clark in their profile of Balanced Media | Technology ahead of the 2018 Tech Titans Awards.
	2018 June	“It’s a badge of honor for innovation.” Dallas Innovates talks with Corey Clark about becoming one of five finalists in the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE competition.
	2018 June	KERA News featured People ForWords when the team became one of the five finalists in the Adult Literacy XPRIZE.
	2018 June	Check out this feature in SMU News about “Codex: The Lost Words of Atlantis” becoming a finalist for the $7 million Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE.
	2018 March	KERA News discusses with Corey Clark and John Wise how taking advantage of Minecraft’s large user base can help in the search for better cancer-fighting drugs.
	2018 Jan	People ForWords was featured on the cover of SMU Magazine’s Spring 2018 edition with an article in the Features section, starting on page 12.
2017
	2017 Dec	Dallas Innovates helps SMU Guildhall and Balanced Media Technology celebrate the alpha launch of HEWMEN.
	2017 Dec	SMU Guildhall announced the alpha launch event of HEWMEN, playing Minecraft to do research on cancer-fighting drugs.
	2017 Sept	Watch the panel discussion featured in SMU Guildhall News and Events on turning Minecraft into a vehicle for cancer research.
	2017 July	Dallas Innovates featured People ForWords when the team was selected as one of eight semifinalists in the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE competition.
	2017 July	Check out the Houston Public Media article on the use of Minecraft’s large user base in the search for better cancer-fighting drugs.
	2017 July	Launch DFW features People ForWords as one of the eight semi-finalists in the $7 million Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE.
	2017 July	SMU Guildhall featured People ForWords when the team was selected as one of eight to move to the next round in the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE competition.
	2017 July	Watch this interview on local NBC DFW channel 5 about Codex: The Lost Words of Atlantis.
	2017 June	Check out this Dallas Innovates article about using the collective brain and computer power of 25,000 Minecraft players to find a new cancer-fighting drug.
	2017 May	Phys Org news discusses the SMU Department of Biological Sciences and SMU Guildhall’s partnership to use Minecraft in the fight against cancer.
2016
	2016 Nov	Check out the Dallas Innovates article on the beginnings of the development of “Codex: The Lost Words of Atlantis.”