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Volume 52 ,  Issue 3  (March 2009) table of contents
Being Human in the Digital Age
COLUMN: News table of contents
Pages 16-17  
Year of Publication: 2009
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Leah Hoffmann  Valerie Nygaard, Microsoft
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Using crowdsourcing applications, humans around the world are transcribing audio files, conducting market research, and labeling data, for work or pleasure.


ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

The Wisdom of Crowds
By James Surowiecki

Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Commercial crowdsourcing application

Mechanical Turk: The Demographics
From the blog, A Computer Scientist in a Business School.

The Faces of Meckanical Turk
Whimsical demographics from journalist and programmer Andy Baio.

Dolores Labs
Offers crowdsourcing services built on Mechanical Turk.

Dolores Labs' blog

Floxter
Web site leverages crowdsourcing to create and assign tasks and compensate workers.

CastingWords
Transcription service that uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

Luis von Ahn's homepage

Games With a Purpose homepage

ReCAPTCHA
Free CAPTCHA service helps digitize books, newspapers, and old-time radio programs.

Video of July 26, 2006 Luis von Ahn lecture on Human Computation

Cheap and Fast - But is it Good?
Presentation on the quality of crowdsourced data.


INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  J. Computer Applications

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems

  J. Computer Applications
  J.0 GENERAL

  K. Computing Milieux


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