1. Human computation, and the wisdom of crowds
Ed Lazowska
Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
August 2011

2. Luis von Ahn

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

6. Games for scientific discovery
David Baker

9.
David Baker and Zoran Popovic

11. Crowdsourced national security
[Peter Lee, DARPA]

12. [Peter Lee, DARPA]

13. 40th Anniversary of the Internet 29 Oct – Announced
5 Dec – Balloons Up
$40k Prize
4367 registrants
countries
922 submissions
correct locations
[Peter Lee, DARPA]

14. Games for learning
Zoran Popovic
Zoran Popovic

15. Games for scientific discovery
Games for learning