 It has historically been a multidisciplinary unit with faculty from fields ranging from literature to sociology to computer science.It has hosted a number of key conferences over the years including Other Players (2004), the 2005 iteration of the Digital Arts and Culture conference, and the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games in 2010.It continues to provide institutional support to the peer-reviewed journal "Game Studies", which launched in 2001 (the editor-in-chief, Espen Aarseth, is former head of the Center and current Associate Professor at the ITU).