Human Computation and The Wisdom of Crowds Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington July 2015
Luis von Ahn
Hours spent building the Panama Canal: 20 million (less than a day of solitaire) Hours per year, world-wide, spent playing computer solitaire: 9 billion
Years were fully digitized, start to finish, in 2009!
David Baker Games for scientific discovery
David Baker and Zoran Popovic
Crowdsourced national security [Peter Lee, DARPA]
4367 registrants 39 countries 922 submissions 370 correct locations 40 th Anniversary of the Internet 29 Oct – Announced 5 Dec – Balloons Up $40k Prize [Peter Lee, DARPA]
Zoran Popovic Games for learning Zoran Popovic
Games for scientific discovery Games for learning