Скачать или смотреть Mapping the human brain through online games | Amy Robinson Sterling | TEDxThessaloniki

Amy takes us into a fascinating journey into the human brain, its structure and millions of electrical signals. This mysterious nano-world is her realm of work. She describes the AI software her team developed in MIT in order to understand how brain activity happens.
The mind-bending scale of data and effort required to process it called for a different approach, so she looked for inspiration out of neuroscience, in the world of games. With over a billion gamers in the world spending hundreds of billions hours playing, even a tiny amount of that time would solve her problem. That’s where the inspiration for EyeWire came from, where people solve 3D puzzles, while actually analyzing data and mapping neurons.
EyeWire illustrates a great example of humans working together with machines to create a force that is more powerful than either alone. It also demonstrates a social shift towards helping scientists understand the world within and around us.

(Video edited by: Eleni Pnevmatikou)

An expert in crowdsourcing and neuroscience, Amy is the Executive Director of EyeWire which started at MIT, and is now an independent nonprofit that collaborates primarily with Princeton but also MIT and New York University, among others. EyeWire is a game to map the brain played by nearly 200,000 people worldwide. In EyeWire, gamers solve 3D puzzles that map out neurons, allowing neuroscientists to better understand how the brain works and decipher the mysteries of how we see. Amy was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015. She writes the Neurotech series for Scientific American in partnership with MITx and has spoken in numerous countries ranging from TED to The White House to the Game Developer’s Conference. Under her leadership, EyeWire has won numerous science awards and its design was featured by Times Square NYC, the San Francisco Exploratorium, and Boston’s Koch Image Gallery. Robinson was featured in NBC’s Nerd Alert and by Science/AAAS Careers.

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