I was lucky enough to see him speak at the University of Michigan (http://www.cse.umich.edu/eecs/etc/events/showevent.cgi?2665 http://www.cse.umich.edu/eecs/etc

I was lucky enough to see him speak at the University of Michigan (http://www.cse.umich.edu/eecs/etc/events/showevent.cgi?2665 http://www.cse.umich.edu/eecs/etc/events/showevent.cgi?2665). Also, I just finished reading REAMDE, and Fold.it is extremely similar to the fictional APPIS discussed in the book. It's still a fairly untapped area, looking to games in order to gain real life advantages. Although besides Fold.it, ReCaptcha, DuoLingo and the ESP game seem to be using related strategies to yield results of some degree.