CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: Crowdsourcing Science: Using Competition to Drive Creativity

sábado, 21 de marzo de 2020

Crowdsourcing Science: Using Competition to Drive Creativity

https://biobeat.nigms.nih.gov/2020/02/crowdsourcing-science-using-competition-to-drive-creativity/
Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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Crowdsourcing Science: Using Competition to Drive Creativity

Historically, crowdsourcing has played an important role in scientific fields like wildlife biology and astronomy. Now, thanks in part to advances in computing, researchers are applying collaboration—mixed with some friendly competition—to help solve complex problems in biomedical science.