Scientists are turning hard-core research tasks into fun, playable games as a way to get people to help tackle problems too large for even the most powerful computers:
One site offering such pleasurable participation is called Games With A Purpose. "Forget Tetris or Solitaire, join one of these science projects and put your free time to good use GAMES WITH A PURPOSE (GWAP). Help train computer vision and artificial intelligence systems.
http://www.gwap.com/gwap/
Others:
GOOGLE IMAGE LABELER: A spin-off from GWAP, play with an anonymous partner to label objects as quickly as possible and help improve this image search engine. www.images.google.com/imagelabeler
FOLDIT: Puzzle your way through folding or designing protein structures and help biologists design the next generation of drugs. www.fold.it
GALAXY ZOO: Classify images of a million different galaxies to help answer some of the biggest questions in cosmology. www.galaxyzoo.org
Full article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026811.700
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