Gamers Succeed Where Scientists Couldn't

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Gamers Succeed Where Scientists Couldn't

September 26, 2011 | ISSUE 47•39

After trying for more than a decade to create a computer model for a protein key to the reproduction of HIV, scientists turned to online gamers, who completed the task in three weeks. What do you think?

Part of me wonders if Freddie Mercury would still be with us if they had brought this problem to Pong users in the '70s.

Mike Grebleck
Souvenir Repairman
It wouldn't kill those scientists to spring for a couple cases of Mountain Dew for this.

Carol Shelton
Architect
I bet they used cheats.

Ned Carlton
Margarine Maker

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