01:198:170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11-12: Shareware, Foldit, Crowdsourcing

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: 01:198:170
• Professor: Stephen Stoll

Document Summary

Refers to solving a problem or achieving a goal by combining the contributions of a large, unconstrained volunteer population. Wikipedia (example, the goal is to build a database of all knowledge) Foldit: a game in which teams compete to fold a protein (helps find out proteins that are important to aids, cancer, and alzheimer"s) Kickstarter: people with creative projects pitch their ideas, people donate to support the idea, if not fulfilled, the people get their money back. Intellectual property (all such human creations are called intellectual property to distinguish them from real estate, pets, cars, and other stuff that can be owned) Software licenses tend to give you the use of the software but the ownership remains with the company that is marketing it. Because you don"t own it, you can not give it to your friend if you do, you violate the terms of the contract that you agreed to when you opened the software package or download.