1. Human computation, and the wisdom of crowds Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington August 2010

3. Hours per year, world-wide, spent playing computer solitaire: 9 billion Hours spent building the Panama Canal: 20 million (less than a day of solitaire)

4. Luis von Ahn z What if ???

5. Years 1851-1980 were completed in 2009 Where do the words come from?

6. Luis von Ahn z What if ???

7. David Baker

10. David Baker and Zoran Popovic http://fold.it/portal/

12. http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/refraction/ Zoran Popovic

13. Regina DuganPeter Lee

14. [Peter Lee, DARPA]

16. 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]