Invited Lecture Series: Games With A Purpose
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Uploaded by pucitp on Apr 30, 2009
Over 200 million hours are spent playing computer and video games every day in the United States. Indeed, by age 21, the average American has spent over 10,000 hours playing such games at eight hours per day and five days per week, thats equivalent to five years of working a full time job. What if this time and energy could be channeled into useful work? What if people could play computer games and accomplish work without even realizing it? What if billions of people collaborated to solve important problems for humanity or generate training data for computers? In this lecture, Professor Luis von Ahn's discusses his general paradigm for doing exactly that: utilizing human processing power to solve computational problems in a distributed manner.
Professor von Ahn works in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and was named one of Popular Science Magazines most Brilliant 10″ scientists of 2006. He has also been named one of the 50 most influential people in technology by silicon.com. His research interests include encouraging people to do work for free, as well as catching and thwarting cheaters in online environments. He is the inventor of the CAPTCHA system.
Originally recorded on October 8, 2008
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I came back from seeing some videos of Luis and yes, he asks the same question at the beginning of his lectures OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
chinchonchinchon 2 years ago
I admire Lui very much, but he is not a very good speaker: He repeats the same discourse over and over...
He is a genius, granted.
chinchonchinchon 2 years ago