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How online gamers are solving science's biggest problems
And gamers are already proving their worth. In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in ...
How gamers are solving science's biggest problems
Lučka is currently a product manager at Dephion, in the Netherlands, where she heads different projects with scientific input for digital apps.When she isn't a spokesperson for scientific breakthroughs, she runs ultramarathons and brews her own coffee. In this talk she discusses the power of VR games in solving science's problems, ranging from ...
How online gamers are solving science's biggest problems
And gamers are already proving their worth. In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
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But the problem proved very difficult, even for the most advanced supercomputers. Then came Fold.it, an online game that harnesses the power of crowd sourcing and human putzing to solve the mysteries of protein structure. Researchers turned the problem over to the gamers - and they solved it in just ten days.
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In 2011, gamers decoded the structure of an AIDS-related enzyme called Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV) retroviral protease, solving a problem that had baffled the scientific community for 15 years.
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There's also a social side: gamers can chat on online forums, work in groups to solve puzzles and share solutions on a wiki. And just like real game development, everything was tuned according ...
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The sweet spot of game complexity. Scientists interested in human reasoning have, to date, used one of two approaches, Agarwal said. The first is to use simple, lab-based tasks. While these are easy to model, they are a far cry from the level of complexity found in real-world problems. UC Berkeley neuroscientist Gautam Agarwal.
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How online gamers are solving science's biggest problems
A new generation of online games don't just provide entertainment - they help scientists solve puzzles involving genes, conservation and the universe Zoran Popovic, director of the Centre for Game Science at the University of Washington, is the co-creator of Foldit. Photograph: Michael Clinard For all their virtual accomplishments, gamers aren't feted for their real-world…
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Fig 1. Screenshot from Foldit. Image courtesy of Wikimedia. The results of Foldit help solve the mechanism of key proteins, find new pathways, or even design new drugs for diseases.
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01. How On-line Gamers are Solving Science's Biggest Problems. On paper, gamers and scientists make a bizarre union. But in reality, their two worlds aren't leagues apart: both involve solving problems within a given set of rules. Genetic analysis, for instance, is about finding sequences and patterns among seemingly random clusters of data.
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And gamers are already proving their worth. In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in ...
Lučka is currently a product manager at Dephion, in the Netherlands, where she heads different projects with scientific input for digital apps.When she isn't a spokesperson for scientific breakthroughs, she runs ultramarathons and brews her own coffee. In this talk she discusses the power of VR games in solving science's problems, ranging from ...
And gamers are already proving their worth. In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
Jan 27, 2014. A new generation of online games don't just provide entertainment - they help scientists solve puzzles involving genes, conservation and the universe. Such games have allowed ...
Foldit is an online multiplayer game, created by Seth Cooper and Zoran Popovic at the University of Washington. It's designed to tap the collecting problem-solving skills of thousands of people ...
Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists. Last updated 12:45 p.m. ET Sept. 20: Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years, and those ...
Their competitive online game "Foldit," released in 2008, enlists the help of online puzzle-solvers to help crack one of science's most intractable mysteries—how proteins fold into their complex ...
Teams of players fold molecules and rotate amino acids to create 3-D protein structures. Gamers get points for structure stability. So researchers asked gamers to try to solve this particular ...
But the problem proved very difficult, even for the most advanced supercomputers. Then came Fold.it, an online game that harnesses the power of crowd sourcing and human putzing to solve the mysteries of protein structure. Researchers turned the problem over to the gamers - and they solved it in just ten days.
In 2011, gamers decoded the structure of an AIDS-related enzyme called Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV) retroviral protease, solving a problem that had baffled the scientific community for 15 years.
There's also a social side: gamers can chat on online forums, work in groups to solve puzzles and share solutions on a wiki. And just like real game development, everything was tuned according ...
The sweet spot of game complexity. Scientists interested in human reasoning have, to date, used one of two approaches, Agarwal said. The first is to use simple, lab-based tasks. While these are easy to model, they are a far cry from the level of complexity found in real-world problems. UC Berkeley neuroscientist Gautam Agarwal.
Academics looked at video games and showed that they can improve a gamer's creative thinking, teamwork skills, hand-eye coordination, problem solving, and memory (although numerous scholars have ...
A new generation of online games don't just provide entertainment - they help scientists solve puzzles involving genes, conservation and the universe Zoran Popovic, director of the Centre for Game Science at the University of Washington, is the co-creator of Foldit. Photograph: Michael Clinard For all their virtual accomplishments, gamers aren't feted for their real-world…
Fig 1. Screenshot from Foldit. Image courtesy of Wikimedia. The results of Foldit help solve the mechanism of key proteins, find new pathways, or even design new drugs for diseases.
Get involved with distributed computing with these online games and downloads ARISTIDES is a typical 13-year-old boy. He plays basketball after school, is learning the clarinet, and in the evening ...
Dr Lučka Bibič, known to colleagues as Spiderwoman, has studied spider venom as a chronic pain reliever as part of her PhD studies at the UEA, School of Phar...
Players have spent 18.2 million minutes classifying in the past month, which equates to 34.7 years —or 163 working years, by what Lundberg called "Swedish measurements.". " [Project ...
Frederik Jötten, 08/03/2018. Image: Shana de Neve. Video game players have solved a 15-year-old puzzle by describing the structure of an HIV envelope protein, and it got them their names on the author list of the specialist journal Nature. But all they'd actually done was to try and score as many points as possible in the computer game ...
Step 1: Transform each factor/variable in the problem into a video game element. Step 2: Model the physics/rules of the video game such that they represent a one-to-one relationship between the ...
"The game is designed to get people to go out into the real world and take as many photos of a building as possible," says Cooper, who is now also the creative director of the Center for Game Science. "We then use those photos to make a 3-D computer model of the building."
This article by The Guardian lists a few major ones : How online gamers are solving science's biggest problems. Alternate Reality Games to solve real world problems! We saw how games like foldit ...
01. How On-line Gamers are Solving Science's Biggest Problems. On paper, gamers and scientists make a bizarre union. But in reality, their two worlds aren't leagues apart: both involve solving problems within a given set of rules. Genetic analysis, for instance, is about finding sequences and patterns among seemingly random clusters of data.
A Times investigation found that tech giants altered their own rules to train their newest artificial intelligence systems. Hosted by Michael Barbaro. Featuring Cade Metz. Produced by Stella Tan ...
Games may be the secret to learning numbers based subjects like math and economics, according to new research. Many students say they struggle with subjects like economics and statistics, with 83% ...
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