The first class in the United States that revolves around the Cell Broadband Engine (the microprocessor that lives in those PS3s) has finished the semester with postive results. MIT and IBM teamed up this year to introduce students to programming with the processor:

During the four-week Independent Activities Period course in January, students not only learned about the new microprocessor, they designed and implemented projects to run directly on PlayStation 3 consoles. The student team with the best project—a 3-D version of the classic pong game—later presented its work and discussed the experience at the Game Developer Conference in March.

The success has inspired MIT and IBM (with sponsorship from Sony) to offer the course again in 2008, which I can only assume is going to make getting into the computer lab that much harder. Kim Phu

MIT, IBM Team Up on First Playstation 3 Course [Physorg via Game News]

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