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Representative Patrick McHenry (R-North Carolina), who was the champion for crowdfund investing in the U.S. House of Representatives, remarked, "I am proud to have authored crowdfunding...
The new website, which came online on July 4, 2012, aims to be a place where people can crowd-source Berkeley’s history by writing their own vignettes and uploading historic photos and videos. The...
Willing participants are paid for information about water availability using a pay-per-task model similar to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. The water information gathered by local residents is then...
Abstract: Governments and foundations have successfully harnessed tournaments to spur innovation. Yet this tool is not widely used by firms. We offer a framework for managers seeking to organize...
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for...
Stardust@Home is a space science project in which volunteers from the general public help scientists locate particles from distant stars. The particles were captured by the spacecraft Stardust and...
Among other programs, students have participated in projects which Built the world's largest online crowd-sourced environmental investigation which discovered several causes for a sudden...
Masley is “changing 2,500 years of musical history,” as filmmaker Martin Yernazian asserts at the crowdfunding site IndieGoGo campaign page for Art Officially Favored, his music documentary in...
Crowdfunding legislation advocates Sherwood Neiss and Jason Best now head the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA), which was previously under the leadership of Berkeley Geddes, Crowdsourcing.org has learned. The CfPA enacted the transition during a board meeting on Tuesday, June 19.
Sponsors of local actor Rebecca Pingree's project can receive tailored (and in some cases, literally) rewards. For example, $50 contributed gets Becca delivering a “singing telegram” of a...
Existing crowdsourcing markets are often inaccessible to workers living at the bottom of the economic pyramid. MobileWorks, a mobile phone-based crowdsourcing platform intended to provide...
For last week's symposium on the JOBS Act, Berkeley Law put together a great list of recent law journal and other articles about the JOBS Act and Crowdfunding.
IQ Engines was founded as a collaboration of computer neuroscientists at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. It is their goal to bring advances in biological vision models to practical image and video...
Wikipedia set up the Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy, asking students from the nation's top public policy programs to help by turning course research into articles for the...
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for...
There are also a host of exciting implementation challenges. Cost based optimization for the crowd involves many new parameters and considerations. Time-of-day, pricing, worker fatigue, task...
In this study, the researchers propose a new approach, called a Crowdsourced Learning Mechanism, in which participants collaboratively “learn” a hypothesis for a given prediction task. The approach...
One of the winners is Anna Ponting, a junior majoring in Urban Studies at Stanford. Her project is designed to describe and evaluate various approaches towards creating the Smart Cities of the...
This paper presents Turkomatic, a tool that recruits crowd workers to aid requesters in planning and solving complex jobs. While workers decompose and solve tasks, requesters can view the status...
A crowdsourcing tutorial focused on: - Hybrid computer / human systems for query processing - Integration with traditional database models, algorithms and systems architectures
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