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The algorithm, which IndieGoGo co-founder and chief executive Slava Rubin explained lightly given its proprietary nature, ranks different funding projects based on interactions with its IndieGoGo...
This program is funded in part by an NIH/NCRR grant supporting Harvard Catalyst’s ongoing investigation of the applicability and results of open innovation methodologies in academic biomedical...
In 2006, Netflix made its vast database of user-generated movie ratings available to the public, offering $1 million to the first team that could improve the accuracy of the company’s...
The Autonomous Space Capture Challenge is open to all eligible participants but especially teams from high schools and colleges. Four winning submissions will be tested aboard the International...
The system, dubbed SLOOP, searches through thousands of images, using pattern-recognition algorithms to analyze features in each image, such as an animal’s arrangement of stripes or spots. The...
One thing that may have possibly caused this current situation is the Turkers' low wages which inevitably impacts quality. If this is the case then Amazon is going to need to find ways of...
Rob Miller, associate professor and leader of the User Interface Design Group in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, whose research lies at the intersection of user...
TunedIT platform is the first online laboratory dedicated to development of intelligent algorithms through crowdsourcing - the easiest and most cost-efficient way of doing research, in massively...
Yet at the same time and completely independently of the Foldit players, scientists were working on their own algorithm using a far more advanced set of tools than the ones provided to the...
Here are three compelling reasons you should consider an Open Innovation approach to tackle your biggest algorithmic challenges.
Stephanie Hamilton is part of something larger than herself. She's part of a computer program. The 38-year-old resident of Kingston, Jamaica, recently began performing small tasks assigned...
"This is a proof-of-concept demonstration that we can bring people together not only from different schools and different disciplines, but from entirely different economic sectors, to solve...
"Creativity is like lightning--it can hit anywhere, anytime.We want to track that spontaneous insight on a global scale with iCoolhunt to prove that there is a universal-code for what...
Another great application and power of crowdsourcing with a substantial prize, illustrating the value companies put on the innovation they derive from crowdsourcing projects.
Since sites like Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Tumblr, and YouTube let us become “broadcasters”,Klout CEO Joe Fernandez feels that people should be measured as well. The data that people put into...
Software developers from around the world and the TopCoder community are invited to compete in the next challenge phase in the Imaging and Text Recognition Innovation Challenge series to develop...
Netflix's mantra is "connecting people to the movies they love." To help customers find those movies, Netflix developed a world-class movie recommendation system: Cinematch. Its job...
Founded in 2008, Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up Pixazza provides a self-servicing platform allowing users to “…shop for products directly from photos” by clicking them, thanks to a combination of algorithmic technology and of course, crowdsourcing. The start-up’s new approach and cost-per-click advertisement model provides marketers with an extremely targeted, visualized and cost-efficient means of reaching audiences utilizing a large network of product experts and publishers.
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Algorithms that were used in the past allowed some websites to get placed ahead of others. In some cases these websites did not offer much help to users. The changes in Google's policy may...
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