Pentagon Video Games Zap Software Flaws

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Play these games, and you'll help DARPA find and fix vulnerabilities in important computer software — no actual coding knowledge needed.

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[lpedraja2002]

"Most famously, in 2011, scientists from the University of Washington created a game based on a 10-year-old question in HIV research. Just 10 hours after the game went live, the problem was solved."

A link to this would be nice, seems pretty interesting.

 

[jimmysmitty]

"Most famously, in 2011, scientists from the University of Washington created a game based on a 10-year-old question in HIV research. Just 10 hours after the game went live, the problem was solved."

A link to this would be nice, seems pretty interesting.

This is interesting. Its like F@H using the human brain, which honestly is better at problem solving since we can think outside of the logical reasoning computers have to use.

 

[clonazepam]

If I do exceptionally well, could I be "recruited"? lol

 

[jtd871]

let's hope that the games themselves have no bugs!

 

[Pailin]

Here is a good quality link describing the HIV gaming solution run on Foldit a few years ago:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/09/gamers-discover-protein-structure-relevant-to-hiv-drugs/

Seems there is indeed great potential in such projects, now we can "idle" our time away while helping contribute to mankind

 

[danwat1234]

Where can I download flow jam?