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Science and the “Nobel” art of gaming
March 31, 2011… Alzheimer’s and AIDS.
Refusing to be out-innovated by mere protein professors, geneticists at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford University have created EteRNA. EteRNA is another folding game: this time the goal is to help create the first large-scale library of synthetic RNA designs (which sounds like you’re studying for a PhD as opposed to playing a puzzle game ).
It doesn’t take a genius to see that gamification is getting a totally new crowd interested in scientific experiments. So …
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March 10, 2011… Giles and MacGregor Campbell, have begun an experiment in collaboration with researchers from Carnegie-Mellon University (“collaboration” as in the researchers do the work and the journalists blog about it). The aim is to
“try and create an automated system for producing quality journalism using Mechanical Turk’s army of untrained workers”.
In practice, this means seeing if Turkers can produce a coherent 500-word scientific article – like something you’d find in Wired …
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Amazon Mechanical Turk, AOL, Arianna Huffington, Carnegie Mellon University, Charlie Sheen, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, Demand Media, distributed work, Huffington Post, Journalism, microwork | Leave a commentBreakfast of Champions – Jesse Schell talks about how games will dominate our lives in the future
April 17, 2010… with its own computer, games, wifi and motion sensors.
Or so says Professor Jesse Schell of Carnegie Mellon University, in a recent presentation at DICE 2010. In a jam-packed 27 minutes, Schell looks at surprising recent trends in the gaming industry, including the enormous popularity and profitability of Farmville, Club Penguin, Webkinz, MafiaWars, Guitar Hero and consoles such as the Wii and Wii Fit. Driving the success of these games are what he calls “psychological …
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Carnegie Mellon University, Club Penguin, DICE, Farmville, Guitar Hero, iPhone, Jesse Schell, MafiaWars, Webkinz, weight watchers, Wii, Wii Fit | 1 CommentThe Great War Archive: could crowd conscription help?
January 9, 2012… currently).
Looking through the material gathered from the public so far ( here by the University of Oxford and here by the German National Library), makes you feel like you have stumbled across photos buried in your grandfather’s basement.
This feeling is partly because the material is so personal and authentic. But it is also partly because much of the text in the letters and diaries has not been transcribed into digital text, so can only be read in its original handwritten …
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Archive, Christmas, Claude Choules, crowd, crowdsourcing, First World War, German National Library, microtask, microwork, University of Oxford, World War I | Leave a commentAncient Lives: crowdsourcing makes history (but will it last?)
September 1, 2011… to Ancient Lives : a collaboration between crowdsourcing science experts Zooniverse and the University of Oxford. The project uses crowdsourced volunteers to digitize the 2000-year-old “Oxyrhynchus scrolls” (I guess the professional archaeologists are busy raiding tombs and fighting Nazis ).
Although the scrolls are written entirely in Ancient Greek, Ancient Lives director Chris Lintott insists this shouldn’t deter the crowd: “You don’t need to know Greek… you can …
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