Crowd Control.

The article discusses crowdsourcing computer applications. Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving process in which answers are sought online for specific questions that computers can't solve, the article states. Other names for the process include human computation and computer-aided micro-c...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 16 - 18
Autor principal:	Hoffmann, Leah
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Mar2009
Materias:	Distributed computing Computer science Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few & How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies & Nations, The (Book) Surowiecki, James Amazon.com Inc. Labor incentives University faculty
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Sumario:	The article discusses crowdsourcing computer applications. Crowdsourcing is a distributed problem-solving process in which answers are sought online for specific questions that computers can't solve, the article states. Other names for the process include human computation and computer-aided micro-consulting. Also discussed is James Surowiecki's book, "The Wisdom of Crowds," the amateur and often anonymous workers that execute the tasks in return for various incentives, and Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing program from Amazon.