We were excited to have Peter Heinrich join us this year at GSummit. Peter is a Developer Evangelist at Amazon. Below are his bio, video and slides from GSummit SF 2014: Peter Heinrich has programmed video games since 1991, when he started his career porting PC titles to the Amiga. He has developed games for desktop, console,…
This past weekend, top developers at Facebook, Google and Amazon Web Services joined research academics and public attendees for a Cancer Research UK hackathon to utilize crowdsourced genetic data and turn it into a smartphone game, tentatively called GeneRun.
The hackathon’s goal is to produce a game that makes use of crowdsourced “citizen scientists” (a la Fold.it) to quickly interpret and analyze data that will facilitate research for cancer drug interventions.
