Noah Wardrip-Fruin is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coeditor of four collections published by the MIT Press: with Nick Montfort, "The New Media Reader" (2003); with Pat Harrigan, "First Person: New Media as Story", "Performance, and Game" (2004), "Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media "(2007), and "Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives" (2009).