(PRWEB) August 30, 2006 -- Special auctions are being offered on eBay for 1-on-1 in-person meetings with the legendary computer pioneer Dr. Alan Kay and world-renowned educator Seymour Papert. Live auction will be held for Xbox creator and CAA agent Seamus Blackley on November 4th at the American Film Institute. All proceeds benefit the ACM Computers in Entertainment student scholarships (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/scholarships.html).

1-hour In-Person Brainstorming Session with Dr. Alan Kay -- Dr. Alan Kay is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering "for the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers", the Alan M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing Machinery "for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing," and the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation "for creation of the concept of modern personal computing and contribution to its realization."

1-hour In-Person Pow-wow with Seamus Blackley, Xbox Creator and CAA (Creative Artists Agency) Agent -- Mr. Seamus Blackley is an agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators. Blackley’s role is to help guide and execute CAA’s strategy for representing video game creators in a full-service manner – securing and negotiating deals with game publishers, with film and television studios, and with networks, and building and servicing client development companies to give game designers greater creative and financial control.

1-hour In-Person Discussion with Legendary Educator Seymour Papert of the MIT Media Lab -- Papert is considered the world's foremost expert on how technology can provide new ways to learn. Papert's contributions go beyond the field of education. He is a mathematician and is a co-founder with Marvin Minsky of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT and a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab, where he continues to work.

The highest bidders will receive complimentary tickets to the 2006 Annual Scholarship Awards Reception on November 4th at the American Film Institute.

The highest bidder at the live auction for Xbox creator and CAA agent Seamus Blackley on November 4th, 2006 at the American Film Institute will receive complimentary tickets to the 2007 Annual Scholarship Awards Reception.

Biddings have begun on eBay via http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/scholarships.html