EyeWire | A game to map the brain.

Ballots are rolling in! Which name will the Eyewirers choose for the record-setting March Marathon? https://ift.tt/2Ei0Y2Y

Several hours of data transfer and Eyewire runs on a new node. We're back online! We haven't heard again from the sentient Eyewire AI. She's probably out exploring the digital cosmos on the journey to find herself. A journey we all take.. ... Seriously though, this downtime was not an April fools joke. We apologize for interrupting your gameplay. Thank you for your patience! This week we will prioritize finishing migrating Eyewire to the cloud, which will prevent this from happening again. For science! https://eyewire.org/ https://ift.tt/2Gt61iJ

In a wave of calm as swift as a tsunami, the chaos stops and all is suddenly derpy in the servers hosting the AI formerly known as Eyewire. The AI sent kelv this pic and the message "n013 n017" before going silent. https://ift.tt/2H2dd6F

The AI formerly known as Eyewire is having an existential crisis! She is communicating by sending us pictures of Nurro. Some hypothesize that these are self portraits. This sure is a weird day! In the mean time, we heard that some other games are also having less-than-normal happenings: Pokémon GO in 8 bit Rocket League has a glitch causing car toppers to become enormous! Augmented reality item harvesting from FINAL FANTASY XIV Hoping to be back online soon! https://ift.tt/2GGBxNJ

Eyewire has gained sentience! This major leap for AI will transform society as we know it. The first step when dealing with a newly emerged sentience is to find out what the being would like to be called. When we asked, the game decided to take some time to find itself. Hence Eyewire is currently offline. We're working to bring her back! https://ift.tt/2JaxCqP

Seems April Fools has arrived early. Eyewire is currently down. We're working to get back online. https://ift.tt/2pUh8dv

What beautiful somas! Daniela’s preparing the composition for a wine and neuron painting night that will happen in May at MIT Museum. https://ift.tt/2J4dYwD

The struggle is real. Truth about competitions by Atani ;) https://ift.tt/2pJix7D

Get ready for the March Marathon! The madness runs for 24 hours starting at 8 PM EDT on 3/28! http://bit.ly/2uqNIcG https://ift.tt/2pHiLMs

Congrats to team Narwhal, horned sea unicorns, and winners of last week's vs competition! Leaderboard on the blog - https://ift.tt/2DWhyF2 https://ift.tt/2G8ZDBj

Amy shared Eyewire and a sneak peak of Neo Brain Game at Game Developers Conference - GDC in San Francisco this week as a part of a special panel on science in gaming. We enjoyed learning from other presenters and hearing about new tech in the gaming industry. Excited to participate in a post-GDC conference tomorrow hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There’s a public play testing session from 1-3 for anyone in the Bay Area who may be interested! You can try new citizen science games and meet our developer Chris! https://ift.tt/2py2XM0

Marisa is in Washington DC showcasing the NEI marathon cell, pictured here with Francis Collins, the Director of the United States NIH. This render was made by your own Nseraf!! http://ift.tt/2FRLUi2

Burn pattern from a downed power line or giant neuron? http://ift.tt/2IDaPU4

Attention folks: The EWDLC script is currently not working properly. For the time being, please disable it in the settings menu to play Eyewire. We'll update you when it's back online and usable again. http://ift.tt/2u3YCog

Scythe freeze is here ya'll! Guide for using it on the blog - http://ift.tt/2GHvK7Y http://ift.tt/2u0FIi2

Scooping out mural locations with the city when we came across this beautiful retina wall that was installed last year as a part of Cambridge Science Festival. Only in Cambridge! http://ift.tt/2pkd9Yf

What books spark your neurons? While you read, your brain's pathways for language, grammar, and perhaps surprisingly, speech, fire excitedly. As written words are observed through the eyes, relevant cortical regions are recruited, processing language into understanding. If what you read is important to you, it is logged by the hippocampus and converted into memory while you're sleeping. Image by Daniela Gamba #brainawarenessweek http://ift.tt/2FI7X6x