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Playing for Science. Bhupesh Mehta, Oscar Ramirez & Soren Fedeles. The leader …. Hyunjune Sebastian Seung Professor of Computational Neuroscience, and Professor of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://hebb.mit.edu/people/seung/. The objective ….
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Playing for Science Bhupesh Mehta, Oscar Ramirez & SorenFedeles
The leader ….. Hyunjune Sebastian Seung Professor of Computational Neuroscience, and Professor of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://hebb.mit.edu/people/seung/
The objective ….. (to make a comprehensive map of neuronal connections in the retina and brain) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome
The game, the website ….. http://eyewire.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeWire
the links, the blogs ….. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeWire • http://eyewire.org/about • http://blog.eyewire.org/eyewire-3onfire-progress-report/ • http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya69pf9Rwf8
The result ….. This article has immense wealth of supplementary data. Most important - all achieved by a large strength of online gamers plus handful of scientists (observers) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7461/full/nature12346.html
More to come ….. Soon