Thursday, September 22, 2011

Cure Aids by playing a video game?!

It's official!  With all its bells and whistles, the computer is still NO MATCH for the human brain!

Scientists have reached out to the game playing world for help.  The result... “Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years, and those scientists say the accomplishment could point the way to crowdsourced cures for AIDS and other diseases.”   "People have spatial reasoning skills, something computers are not yet good at."
How awesome.  Gamers solving scientific problems... and saving lives!
Click here for the full article - Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffle scientists

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