Programming crowds
At the Association for Computing Machinery’s 23rd symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in October, members of the User Interface Design Group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial...
View ArticleGoogle’s Schmidt: ‘Global mind’ offers new opportunities
A “global mind” comprising humans and computers offers huge opportunities for informed decision-making, democratization of information, and world-wide problem solving, Google Executive Chairman Eric...
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Algorithmic incentives
Interactive proofs are a type of mathematical game, pioneered at MIT, in which one player — often called Arthur — tries to extract reliable information from an unreliable interlocutor — Merlin. In a...
View ArticleMaking crowdsourcing easier
Crowdsourcing is a technique for farming out labor-intensive tasks over the Internet by splitting them into small chunks that dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people complete at their desks for a...
View ArticleNew online learning tool brings 'the crowd' into homework assignments
In an effort to bring a more human dimension to the online-education experience, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Associate Professor Rob Miller has developed a new computer...
View ArticleWhy are Japanese cartoons a global hit?
In early 1979, a cartoon series about giant robots, “Mobile Suit Gundam,” made its debut on Japanese television. It was not a hit. Scheduled to run for 12 months, the plug was about to be pulled after...
View ArticleFinding a gecko in the crowd
Keeping track of individuals in an endangered population of animals is a cumbersome and time-consuming task. Conservationists physically tag animals in the wild to better follow them over time. But...
View ArticleViews you can use? How online ratings affect your judgment
Are you influenced by the opinions of other people — say, in the comments sections of websites? If your answer is no, here’s another question: Are you sure?A new study co-authored by an MIT professor...
View ArticleConfronting climate change from the bottom up
As international climate negotiators meet this month for the 19th meeting of the UN Conference of Parties (COP19), there’s an increasing realization that top-down efforts to confront climate change...
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