Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Playing a game to win a Nobel Price

Do you know the project Folding@home? (here)
Your computer do all the work, unfolding a protein with thounsands try per second.
It's a bruteforce approach.
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Do you know the project Fold.it? (here)
YOU do all the work, unfolding a protein in your lunch-break time with one try per lunch.
It's a funforce approach.

According to Zoran Popovic of the University of Washington:
"Our ultimate goal is to have ordinary people play the game and eventually be candidates for winning the Nobel Prize."

Good luck ;)

1 comment:

Andrea Valente said...

Wow. Great idea: using a game to do "real" stuff like this! Terrific. (I wonder if there are more games made in this spirit out there)

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