CrowdSolving

What happens when hundreds of thousands of non-experts play a protein folding game? They make important scientific discoveries, of course! Behind the scenes, such magical applications are being enabled by advances in simulation technology and by our deepening understanding of on-line social games. This talk will describe several large-scale experiments we have launched in which hundreds of thousands of gamers are playing with interactive biomolecular simulations and thereby making discoveries which have eluded the scientific community for decades. These experiences presage a new era of "CrowdSolving" with radical implications for scientific discovery, education, labor organization, and intellectual property law.

Speaker: Adrien Trueille, Carnegie Mellon University

Room 306