human computation, and the wisdom of crowds
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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 2013. Luis von Ahn. Hours per year, world-wide, spent playing computer solitaire: 9 billion. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Human computation, andthe wisdom of crowds
Ed LazowskaBill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & EngineeringUniversity of Washington
July 2013
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Luis von Ahn
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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
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Years 1851-1980 were fully digitized, start to finish, in 2009!
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David Baker
Games for scientific discovery
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David Baker and Zoran Popovic
http://fold.it/portal/
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Crowdsourced national security
[Peter Lee, DARPA]
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[Peter Lee, DARPA]
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4367 registrants39 countries922 submissions370 correct locations
40th Anniversary of the Internet 29 Oct – Announced5 Dec – Balloons Up$40k Prize
[Peter Lee, DARPA]
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Zoran Popovic
Games for learning
Zoran Popovic
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Games for scientific discovery
Games for learning
http://games.cs.washington.edu/