Human computation, andthe wisdom of crowds

Ed LazowskaBill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & EngineeringUniversity of Washington

July 2013

Luis von Ahn

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

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

David Baker

Games for scientific discovery

David Baker and Zoran Popovic

http://fold.it/portal/

Crowdsourced national security

[Peter Lee, DARPA]

[Peter Lee, DARPA]

4367 registrants39 countries922 submissions370 correct locations

40th Anniversary of the Internet 29 Oct – Announced5 Dec – Balloons Up$40k Prize

[Peter Lee, DARPA]

Zoran Popovic

Games for learning

Zoran Popovic

Games for scientific discovery

Games for learning

http://games.cs.washington.edu/