Insights From How Humans Play Borderlands Science
Throughout the past year, we’ve been collecting and analyzing millions of solutions submitted by the...
09 December, 2021 Blog
We are a team of computer scientists and bioinformaticians based at the School of Computer Science at McGill University.
We develop artificial intelligence systems that combine the intuition of humans with the speed of computers to solve complex problems in biology and genomics. Our technology aims to tap into the vast reservoir of problem-solving skills acquired by video gamers while maintaining the entertaining experience. Our data and software are freely accessible.
current projects
Borderlands Science
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How to know these puzzles are right for you
In our past blog posts, we have focused primarily on the puzzle results received from players, and h...
29 September, 2021 Blog -
Would you like to know more?
While we are pursuing our analysis of the tens of millions of solutions submitted by Borderlands 3 a...
25 May, 2021 Blog
HOW IT WORKS
Our expertise
Intelligent systems
We design algorithms and machine learning frameworks to access the expertise of crowds of human users.
Game design
We advise the development of fun games for solving real scientific problems. We engage with professional game designers to guarantee the scientific integrity of the game while maximizing entertainment and UX.
Citizen science
We build partnerships with biomedical researchers to help them to engage large crowds of participants in solving complex scientific tasks through games.
TEAM
Ryan Brinkmann
Scientific Advisor
Renata Mutalova
PhD Student
Parham Ghasemloo
PhD Student
Tim Keding
M.Sc. Student
