Katie Salen is Professor of Design and Technology at Parsons the New School for Design. She is the coauthor of "Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals" and coeditor of "The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology" and "The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Media and Learning, " all published by the MIT Press. She is also Executive Director of Institute of Play, a design-led games and learning nonprofit.