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Photo By Getty Images That’s one small step for HIV research and one giant leap for innovation. A group of gamers on a site called FoldIt have helped solve a long-standing scientific puzzle: the structure of an enzyme found in an HIV-related monkey virus.
Let’s say you’re an amateur photographer who has just purchased a fancy new camera and now you want to be able to manipulate all the photos you’ve taken. You download the massive Photoshop 30-day trial from the Adobe website, then run through the install process, and then finally, launch Photoshop. And what do you see? A blank white canvas, and an overwhelming assortment of menus and panels.
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Gamification or How to win 1 billion Users until 2015