In 2018, Firas Khatib gave the ICERM Public Lecture "Crowd Computing: Scientific Discoveries by Protein-Folding Game Players." He explained how a free online game allowed citizen scientists to uncover knowledge that eluded biochemists for years. Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient David Baker is the director of the University of Washington Institute of Protein Design, the leading force behind the protein-folding game Foldit. Khatib, who is now an Associate Professor of Computer Information Scienc