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The citizen scientist project is man versus machine. A computer can sift through this data, yes, but it’s only looking for what you tell it to look for. Planet Hunters needs human brains.
It was the increasing popularity of ScienceforCitizens.net—more than 10,000 visitors per month—that convinced Cavalier there was a need for a more robust way to connect scientists with citizens,...
Experts in the UK and north America are asking "citizen scientists" to study and sift through about 15,000 recordings of calls by pilot whales and killer whales around the planet, to...
#1 The power of distributed thinking. Using networks of human minds to solve problems goes a step beyond crowdsourcing techniques for performing work tasks. #2 The power of gaming. The prospect of...
Through a Web site called Field Expedition Mongolia, which Lin and his colleagues developed jointly with National Geographic, volunteers are helping sift through 85,000 high-resolution satellite...
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Dr. Calkins, an adjunct professor of biology at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and Dr. Gee may have been the first professional scientists to use a generic “crowd funding” Web site to...
This year, Khatib wanted to see if the Foldit community could solve fresh problems. He entered the players into a twice-yearly contest called CASP (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein...
Users can search for opportunities by topic – archeology, climate & weather, physics, etc.—or by activity, such as “at the beach,” “in the car,” or “while fishing.” Advertisers will target...
This crowdsourcing app "Instant Wild app" allows the ZSL to focus on the images that need closer inspection: if 90% of users identify an image as an African elephant, chances are...
The launch of SETI Live opens the door for anyone to help search for intelligent life on other planets. For the first time ever, data being received by the Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek, CA...
Online volunteers have led to the creation of a catalog of over 5,000 interstellar gas bubbles which will allow astronomers to explore the mechanisms underlying the formation of massive stars....
Runmycode hopes to repair some of this anxiety and uncertainty by providing an easy-to-use tool to test the code and conclusions from any scholarly business or economics paper. A user can...
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is contributing its database of images showing the male, female and juveniles of more than 500 North American species. Citizen scientists working with the...
Young scientists struggling unsuccessfully to obtain funds through traditional routes like foundation grants are also experimenting with crowdfunding these days. Among them is Mary Rogalski, a...
The funding came out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program Crowd Sourced Formal Verification. The goal of the experiment is to create puzzles that gamers can solve on laptops and...
"Both Genspace and Assay Depot are committed to the idea that science should not be limited to well-funded academic or industry researchers, but should be open to everyone to collaborate,...
Cancer Research UK has launched ClicktoCure, an online initiative that aims to crowdsource help from the public in analysing data from its studies of the disease. SOURCE LINK to the full...
British scientists have made a global appeal for help finding weaknesses in the fungus causing ash dieback after publishing the first molecular sequencing data on the disease. SOURCE LINK:...
Instead of traditional data-gathering, McCormick thinks disaster responders should turn to citizen-scientists, who can provide more timely, granular information. "The data collected through...
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