EyeWire in the Press
In The News
Neural connection in the retina (mapped by @eye_wire‘s gamers) explain how we detect motion http://t.co/3Wr61jPI6B pic.twitter.com/zj4V5ihobb
— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) May 5, 2014
All Circuits Are Busy http://t.co/HTdL786uqq — The New York Times (@nytimes) May 27, 2014
How thousands of online gamers teamed up to help us understand the brain: http://t.co/SswNW4t08q
— The NPR Science Desk (@nprscience) May 5, 2014
EyeWire Video Gamers Help Untangle the Retina’s Space-Time Secrets http://t.co/5u5x3R3zlh — NBC News Science (@NBCNewsScience) May 4, 2014
Over 70,000 have played the ‘Eyewire’ game that trains computers to map the brain http://t.co/CKqWmFX01Z — Forbes Tech News (@ForbesTech) August 19, 2013
Hundreds of articles have been written about EyeWire since it launched in Dec 2012. Find a list of prominent publications below:
Forbes | 70,000+ Have Played ‘EyeWire’ Game that Trains Computers to Map the Brain 8.29.2013 WIRED | A Videogame that Recruits Gamers to Map the Brain 8.2.13 Nature | A Game to Map the Brain 3.14.13 WIRED | SharpBrains Data and Brain Games 3.12.13 NPR | Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Push Frontiers of Brain Research 3.6.13 YouTube’s SourceFed | Video Game Helps Science 3.6.13 PLoS | Top 10 Citizen Science Projects of 2012 12.31.12 Business Insider | EyeWire’s Sebastian Seung Named Among World’s 50 Sexiest Scientists 2.25.13 Scientific American | EyeWire 12.12.13 Nature | Neural Connectomics Game Revealed 12.11.13 It’s Okay To Be Smart | You Play A Game, Scientists Map Neurons 12.11.13 Huffington Post | Step One In Fixing The Brain: Understand How It Works 12.10.12 TED Blog | Play with the Brain 12.10.12 TED | Sebastian Seung: I Am My Connectome
