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Darpa crowd-sources anti-submarine tactics

Darpa crowd-sources anti-submarine tactics

The military agency has posted a simulation game featuring an underwater anti-submarine, in the hopes of gathering data on the best moves to make when hunting enemy vessels Read more

8 April, 2011 by Ben Woods
Perspectives on <endeca_term>Crowdsourcing</endeca_term> Annotations for Natural Language Processing

Perspectives on Crowdsourcing Annotations for Natural Language Processing

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a new method for obtaining annotations for training models... Read more

26 March, 2011
CrowdDB: Answering Queries With <endeca_term>Crowdsourcing</endeca_term>

CrowdDB: Answering Queries With Crowdsourcing

...or aggregating results based on fuzzy criteria. CrowdDB uses human input via crowdsourcing to process queries that neither database systems nor search engines can adequately... Read more

1 April, 2011
Emerging Ubiquitous Knowledge Services: From Mobile Sensing to Ubiquitous <endeca_term>Crowdsourcing</endeca_term> and Beyond

Emerging Ubiquitous Knowledge Services: From Mobile Sensing to Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing and Beyond

Recent advances of information and communication technologies (e.g., smartphones and Web 2.0) have facilitated... Read more

6 October, 2011
Enhanching in Vehicle Digital Maps Via GPS <endeca_term>Crowdsourcing</endeca_term>

Enhanching in Vehicle Digital Maps Via GPS Crowdsourcing

In this paper, the authors propose a simple and effective method to extend digital maps with the location and timing of... Read more

16 July, 2011
Understanding and Using Rendezvous to Enhance Mobile <endeca_term>Crowdsourcing</endeca_term> Applications

Understanding and Using Rendezvous to Enhance Mobile Crowdsourcing Applications

As mobile phones increasingly become general-purpose devices, phone manufacturers have integrated various sensors into... Read more

7 June, 2011
Using <endeca_term>Crowdsourcing</endeca_term> in the Design of Context-Sensitive Help for Web Applications

Using Crowdsourcing in the Design of Context-Sensitive Help for Web Applications

Users are increasingly searching for information online to learn how to use applications and recover from unexpected... Read more

12 May, 2011
<endeca_term>Crowdsourcing</endeca_term> Mobile Workflows With Tweetflows

Crowdsourcing Mobile Workflows With Tweetflows

The use of mobile devices and Applications (Apps) offer users ubiquitous access to arbitrary Services. In this paper,... Read more

31 March, 2011

The Weekly Round-Up: Why mobiles make us rude and wi-fi makes us grumpy

...language appropriate to the audience. It doesn't matter if you are crowdsourcing on your iPhone, you still need to mind your Ps and Qs... Read more

18 November, 2011 by The Round-Up

Foldit yields AIDS breakthrough

...paper. "Although much attention has recently been given to the potential of crowdsourcing and game playing, this is the first instance that we are aware... Read more

19 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Seti releases alien-hunting Android app

...SetiQuest Explorer is modeled on the same idea, but using humans and crowdsourcing to distribute visual recognition duties to people with spare time on their... Read more

11 March, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Technology and the Future of Humanitarian Aid

...who until recently would have sent donations are now contributing mapping and crowdsourcing services. 2. As a result, information flows are accelerating, raising expectations around... Read more

14 January, 2011

Crowd-sourced analysis used for solar storm predictions

...the STFC told ZDNet UK on Monday. Despite the advantages offered by crowdsourcing, Harrison says that it is still "early days" in terms of people... Read more

13 December, 2010

Using Mobile Phones to Spot Counterfeit Drugs

By Dr. Afshi Gogo One can no longer argue that cell phones are not popular in developing nations. The explosive... Read more

7 October, 2010
Mozilla dreams up conceptual Seabird phone

Mozilla dreams up conceptual Seabird phone

...Mozilla Labs' Concept Series is a fine example of crowdsourcing. Working from a bunch of concepts submitted by the Mozilla community to... Read more

24 September, 2010 by Larry Dignan

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If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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