Awards and events this week: MindFit, Posit Science, Serious Games, Baby Boomers, Aging

Very inter­est­ing week:

Awards:

1) Mind­Fit ‘Brain Gym’ Soft­ware Receives 2007 Award Busi­ness and Aging Award by the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging (ASA).

“Most peo­ple neglect to exer­cise their brains as much as they should.  Mind­Fit was cre­at­ed specif­i­cal­ly for baby boomers and seniors as a fit­ness cen­ter for their minds,” said Prof. Shlo­mo Breznitz, Ph.D., founder and pres­i­dent of Cog­niFit, Ltd.

More on Mind­Fit program.

2) Posit Sci­ence received the ASA Small Busi­ness award

(You can learn more about the sim­i­lar­i­ties and dif­fer­ences between Mind­Fit and Posit Sci­ence here)

3) Keep­ing Brains Fit: Min­dAlert Awards Rec­og­nize Three Suc­cess­ful Edu­ca­tion­al Pro­grams, (Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging-MetLife Foun­da­tion Min­dAlert Awards)

Baby Boomer Summit

Boomer Busi­ness Experts Pre­dict “What’s Next in 07

Mar­keters need new strat­e­gy to reach boomer wallets

Seri­ous Games Summit

Game Fri­day: Har­ness­ing Col­lec­tive Intel­li­gence with Jane McGonigal

Seri­ous Games Squared

Per­sua­sive Games: The Miss­ing Social Rit­u­als of Exergames

Oth­er

Mind con­trol: The future of gaming?

Amaz­ing demo of what we remem­ber visu­al­ly, and why