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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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 16 - 18
Main Author: Hoffmann, Leah
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2009
Subjects:
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
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.