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Human Computation and The Wisdom of Crowds Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington July 2015.

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1 Human Computation and The Wisdom of Crowds Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington July 2015

2 Luis von Ahn

3 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

4 Years 1851-1980 were fully digitized, start to finish, in 2009!

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6 David Baker Games for scientific discovery

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

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12 Crowdsourced national security [Peter Lee, DARPA]

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14 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]

15 Zoran Popovic Games for learning Zoran Popovic

16 Games for scientific discovery Games for learning http://games.cs.washington.edu/

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