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document Distributed Knowledge, Tools
Tiramisu Transit LLC, the Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company that uses crowdsourcing and GPS technology to track Port Authority of Allegheny County and CMU transit trips, has received...
document Distributed KnowledgeTiramisu is among the initial projects to reach deployment with help from the Traffic21 initiative, which was created by Carnegie Mellon with support from the Hillman Foundation. It draws on...
Crowd CreativityA study from Carnegie Mellon University is coming to the defense of crowdsourcing, particularly when it comes to tapping the masses for ideas that lead to the creation of new products or services.
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document Distributed KnowledgeWasted effort is certainly something to be avoided, especially in today’s culture. Crowdsourcing is a wonderful tool
document Distributed Knowledge
A $1 million grant through the Keck Foundation's Medical Research Program will provide ongoing support for the year-old EteRNA project, which has already engaged more than 30,000...
Distributed Knowledge
Transit riders in Pittsburgh will soon be able to get the answer for the most common question for who waits at a bus stop: Where's the bus? Thanks to Tiramisu, a new pretty straightforward iPhone application developed at Carnegie Mellon University, riders will be able to share arrival times with each other.
By using crowdsourcing to share information, anyone waiting at a bus or T stop with an iPhone can see which buses or light rail vehicles are due to arrive next and, thanks to the signals from riders already aboard, get an idea of how long they have to wait.
Tiramisu — "pick me up" in Italian — makes it easy for riders to use their iPhones to signal the location and occupancy level of the Port Authority of Allegheny County bus they are riding, in real-time.
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document Distributed Knowledge According to Kannan Srinivasan, a Rohet Tolani Distinguished Professor of International Business, " "Although crowdsourcing initiatives are being widely adopted in many different...
document Distributed Knowledge
"Collectively, people spend more than 70 billion hours a year trying to make sense of information they have gathered online," said Aniket Kittur, assistant professor in Carnegie...
blog Crowd Creativity, Distributed Knowledge
What is particularly intriguing about Tiramisu is the commitment to universal design that the CMU team held throughout the building process. Not only does the program strive to provide helpful...
document Open InnovationEteRNA is the joint effort of a group of scientists led by Das, and Adrien Treuille, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon. They met as postgraduate researchers at the...
document Distributed KnowledgeIn a pilot study that invited the crowd into their classrooms, Carnegie Mellon and Northwestern instructors found that input from social media and other crowdsourcing sites helped the students...
document Crowd Creativity, Distributed KnowledgeThe research team led by Aniket Kittur, assistant professor in CMU’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), found that the crowdsourced articles compared favorably with articles written by a...
document Crowd Creativity, Open InnovationMany other large-scale open problems can be solved using collective human brainpower in this unique way. Examples include:
• Language translation. A game could challenge two players who don’t...
site Distributed Knowledge / TranslationLanguage differences remain a barrier for the global sharing of knowledge, and computers cannot process human language accurately. The more you learn at Duolingo, the more knowledge you make...
document Open InnovationTiramisu, an Italian word meaning, “pick me up,” is a user-friendly application that uses a rider's iPhone to signal the location and occupancy level of the Port Authority of Allegheny County...
document Distributed KnowledgeIf it’s true that greater awareness of crowdsourcing amongst consumer groups leads to more valuable contributions, then going forward major brands may reap the collective benefits. As using an...
document Distributed Knowledge, Tools
Luis von Ahn, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University best known for his work in protecting websites via crowdsourcing, has been named winner of the 2011 Grace Murray Hopper Award....
article Distributed KnowledgeThe system uses crowdsourcing to provide subjective information about social groups that would otherwise be difficult or impossible for a robot to ascertain.
The researchers’ algorithm for...
video Open InnovationDuolingo will be a revolutionary product in which millions of internet users from around the world will work together to translate the internet and learn a new language at the same time. All for...