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Human Computation Institute (HCI) is a non-profit innovation center that advances the science of scalable crowd-power to tackle hard societal problems.
Lake Hazel Students Win Trophy for Accelerating Alzheimer's Research
Middle school students are being awarded the world’s first “Citizen Science” trophy by the Human Computation Institute (HCI) at Lake Hazel Middle School (Boise, ID) on Thursday, 21st December. 250 students formed the winning “Middle School STEM” team in HCI’s…
EyesOnALZ Citizen Science Project to Enlist Millions of PBS Viewers to Fight Alzheimer's
EyesOnALZ (http://eyesonalz.com) – a project to crowdsource Alzheimer’s research is launching an online competition to #CrushALZ on April 6th, in partnership with The Crowd & The Cloud – a public television documentary series about citizen science. The documentary, created…
Citizens Can Fight Alzheimer's Directly With a New Online Game
Human Computation Institute (HCI) has just launched a new citizen science game that will allow the general public to directly contribute to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research, and help scientists search for a cure. The Stall Catchers (stallcatchers.com) game, launched today,…