Paper Info
Title
Three human computation projects
Abstract
At the height of its construction, 44,733 people worked on the Panama Canal. The Great Pyramid of Giza required 50,000 workers and the Apollo Project 400,000. No matter what you put on this list, humanity's largest achievements have been accomplished with less than a few hundred thousand workers because it has been impossible to assemble (let alone pay!) more people to work together --- until now. With the Internet, we can coordinate the efforts of billions of humans. If 400,000 people put a man on the moon, what can we do with 100 million? My research aims to develop theories and build computer systems that enable massive collaborations between humans and computers for the benefit of humanity. I am working to develop a new area of computer science called human computation, which studies how to harness the combined power of humans and computers to solve problems that would be impossible for either to solve alone. In this talk I will discuss several examples of my work in human computation, including reCAPTCHA, The ESP Game, and Duolingo. I have used these projects in many of my courses to illustrate state of the art concepts in computer science.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1953163.1953354
SIGCSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
human computation,panama canal,computer system,human computation project,great pyramid,apollo project,computer science,art concept,esp game,hundred thousand worker,combined power,development theory
Data science,Apollo,Software engineering,Computer science,Humanity,Human computation,Pyramid,Multimedia,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
0
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis von Ahn13461346.66