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Uploaded by on May 14, 2008

Hello World
Sixteen months, 103,417 lines of code, 154 meetings, 1,034 cans of Mountain Dew, and GWAP.com is finally here!

The Name. Yes, GWAP is a little weird as a name. Partly because we're a little weird ourselves, and partly because it's impossible to get a decent domain name. GWAP stands for "Games With A Purpose."

The Purpose. The games on this site all have a common purpose: to make computers more intelligent. As you play the games, you are teaching computers things that they don't know yet. Please help them learn!

The Team. The person who made this site possible is our chief engineer, Mike Crawford. He agreed to move from Australia to Pittsburgh to work on this project -- ha! In addition, Mike Brotzman, Severin Hacker (yes, his last name really is Hacker), Edith Law, Bryant Lee, and Edison Tan all spent countless hours architecting the games and the site. Ryan Staake was our ninja graphic designer.

The Past. GWAP.com is brought to you by the same people who created The ESP Game (a.k.a., the Google Image Labeler), Peekaboom and reCAPTCHA.

Enjoy!

Luis von Ahn
Executive Producer

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  • Video explains the concept very well!

  • nice metaphor

  • doesnt work on my laptop :(. and kind find any reasons why not.

  • great video. really nutshelly.

  • This video is awesome!

    Perfectly explains the essence of this game.

  • very cute video & the games on the site are fun! :D

  • Finally all these games back online!!

  • I see what you did there

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