Byline: Carnegie Mellon University
PITTSBURGH, May 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Most online game sites don't promise players anything besides some fun and a way to kill time, but a site being launched by scientists in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science will offer something else: a chance to make computers smarter.
The new site, gwap.com (http://gwap.com/gwap/), features what Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, calls "games with a purpose," or GWAPs. Each is a multi-player online game that is designed to be fun and also accomplish tasks that are easy for humans but beyond the capability of today's computers.
"We ...