News
 
  2016-01-08 Nanocrafter in SciStarter's Top Ten Citizen Science Projects of 2015.  
  2015-12-11 Panel at the HEVGA Games + Higher Education + National Impact Event.  
  2015-11-12 Nanocrafter in the Top 10 Interactives of the NSF Visualization Challenge.  
  2015-10-19 Talk in Austria at IIASA.  
  2015-10-16 Talk in Sweden at Medicon Weekend and interview with 8till5.  
  2015-08-12 Talk at the Disruptive Bytes series.  
  2015-08-11 Nanocrafter and Foldit on display at the GLOBALE: Global Games exhibition.  
  2015-05-28 New game Paradox launched as part of Verigames.  
  2015-05-06 Talk at CHIFOO.  
  2015-02-25 Nanocrafter and Foldit participate in #CitSciChat.  
  2015-02-11 The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications, is released, including my contributed chapter "Massively Multiplayer Research: Gamification and (Citizen) Science".  
  2015-01-11 The documentary The Revenge of Video Games, featuring Foldit, airs in Canada.  
  2014-12-04 Nanocrafter wins Best Social Media Crowdsourcing in the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge.  
  2014-10-10 Nanocrafter nominated as a finalist in the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge.  
  2014-10-03 Interview in Wired article on public involvement in science covering Foldit.  
  2014-08-26 KIRO Radio interview on Foldit and Nanocrafer (at about 6:50).  
  2014-07-28 My dissertation, A Framework for Scientific Discovery through Video Games, published by Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool.  
  2014-05-28 Article in Fast Co.Labs on games for science covers Foldit and Nanocrafter.  
  2014-05-28 Interview with the UW Daily.  
  2014-04-25 Nanocrafter discussed on NPR Science Friday.  
  2014-04-23 Our new scientific discovery game, Nanocrafter, announced at Games for Change.  
  2013-12-20 "On the Job" interview with cogito.org.  
  2013-12-16 Article in Harvard Magazine, about citizen science and Foldit.  
  2013-12-04 Flow Jam, a game for formal verification of software, launches.  
  2013-09-25 Talk at Social Media Week Berlin.  
  2013-09-04 Podcast with Navy CNO's Rapid Innovation Cell.  
  2013-09-03 Commentary article in Structure.  
  2013-07-19 Foldit receives the Dr. Frank H. Netter Award for Special Contributions to Medical Education.  
  2013-05-22 Talk for Computer Science Club and Ready Set Transfer Academy at North Seattle Community College.  
  2013-05-15 Interview with SLAS.  
  2013-05-14 Interview on games for change BBC Radio 4 (at 23:17).  
  2013-03-07 Interview on the power of games at GSummit.  
  2013-02-20 UW CSE produces research videos on Foldit and Refraction and Treefrog Treasure.  
  2013-02-15 Talk at AAAS 2013 session "A New Social (Media) Contract for Science".  
  2013-02-01 Featured in Alaska Airlines Magazine article on gamification.  
  2013-01-24 Foldit wins the 2012 Katerva Award in the Behavioral Change category.  
  2013-01-24 Short animated documentary The Contenders online.  
  2013-01-15 Talk at SLAS 2013.  
  2013-01-07 Foldit receives an honorable mention for Technical Excellence in the 2013 Independent Games Festival.  
  2013-01-01 Article covering Foldit, Refraction, and Treefrog Treasure in The Scientist magazine.  
  2012-11-29 Talk at TEDxPanthéonSorbonne now online.  
  2012-11-29 Keynote talk at the 2012 Frank Armitage Lecture.  
  2012-11-15 A short documentary on Foldit is a semi-finalist for the FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition.  
  2012-11-08 Talk at TEDxPanthéonSorbonne on massive collaboration for science.  
  2012-11-01 Interview with American Scientist.  
  2012-10-29 Member of panel discussion on the Power of Crowds at Seattle Interactive Conference.  
  2012-10-23 Member of panel discussion at Japan Prize's IPCEM.  
  2012-10-19 Featured in UW's Year in Review.  
  2012-09-25 CGS creates a game in under 48 hours for NBC's Education Nation event.  
  2012-09-04 Article in Popular Mechanics on Foldit.  
  2012-07-27 Talk at the 2012 Public Participation in Scientific Research Conference.  
  2012-07-27 Keynote talk at The Association of Medical Illustrators annual meeting.  
  2012-07-07 In New York Times article on UW CSE.  
  2012-07-03 Talk at Mensa Colloquium 2012.  
  2012-06-20 Talk at GSummit 2012.  
  2012-06-02 Foldit on display at the Seattle Science Festival Science EXPO Day.  
  2012-06-01 Named one of MDDI's 40 under 40.  
  2012-05-17 Cover story in the UW Daily.  
  2012-05-02 Received the 2011 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.  
  2012-05-02 Talk at STEM speaker session at Seattle Central Community College.  
  2012-04-16 Panelist at the ScienceOnline Seattle Inaugural Event.  
  2012-04-12 Interview with MedCrunch.  
  2012-04-11 Talk on the power of play at TEDMED.  
  2012-03-26 Appeared in Fierce's Biotech's Top 10 Biotech Techies.  
  2012-03-14 Invited talk on Foldit for Elsevier Technology Services.  
  2012-03-11 Foldit presented in "Using Big Data Takes Machines & Humans" session at SXSW.  
  2012-03-08 Talk and poster at the Game Developers Conferece on using telemetry in games.  
  2012-03-07 Foldit listed in Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Gaming Companies.  
  2012-02-09 Digital artwork Foldit Screenshot of a Retroviral Protease goes on display at the Wing Luke Museum.  
  2012-02-02 Foldit wins 1st place in the NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge in the Interactive Games category.  
  2012-01-31 Talk on games for solving hard problems at Kentlake Speaker Series.  
  2012-01-22 Foldit players' design of a new protein enzyme published in a paper in Nature Biotechnology.  
  2012-01-03 Interview with Daily BR!NK.  
  2011-12-09 Awarded UW CSE's William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award.  
  2011-12-01 Foldit wins TechFlash's Innovation of the Year.  
  2011-11-30 Guest lecture at The Art Institute of Seattle.  
  2011-11-25 Keynote talk on games for solving hard problems at Toronto's GamerCamp Lv3.  
  2011-11-12 Talk on games as the future of scientific discovery at TEDxVancouver.  
  2011-11-07 Algorithm discovery by Foldit players discussed in a new paper.  
  2011-11-07 Foldit demo at Seattle Gates Foundation.  
  2011-09-27 Foldit demo at Health 2.0.  
  2011-09-18 Paper on Foldit players' solution of a real-world scientific problem published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.  
  2011-07-18 Talk on games for education and Foldit+Kinect demo at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.  
  2011-07-14 Talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Visualization in Science and Education.  
  2011-06-29 Talk on social development of scientific algorithms at FDG 2011.  
  2011-05-14 Talk on Foldit and other CGS games at GRAND 2011.  
  2011-05-04 Talk on using games to solve hard problems at TTI/Vanguard conference on Serious Fun.  
  2011-04-25 Three papers accepted to Foundations of Digital Games 2011.  
  2011-03-10 Talk on Foldit and community at WebWise.  
  2011-03-01 Talk at the GDC Serious Games Summit with Zoran Popović on solving hard real-world problems with games.  
  2011-02-19 Invited talk in Washington, DC at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Foldit and citizen science.  
  2011-01-27 Interview with German magazine Innovation Stuntmen.  
  2011-01-14 Invited talk at Cambridge Health Institute's PepTalk.  
  2010-08-17 Interview with The Economist.  
  2010-08-05 Nature publishes our paper on the protein folding skill of Foldit players.  
  2010-06-19 Presentation on the challenge of designing games for scientific disovery at the Foundations of Digital Games conference.  
  2010-05-27 Invited talk at Games for Health conference.