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Fall 2011
Image understanding is a general challenge in Artificial Intelligence (AI) because of its complexity. It is considered an AI-complete problem. We focus on the specific, important, and difficult case of microfossil identification, which is currently done manually. Microfossil identification has...
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Spring 2015
Since the inception of Google Maps in 2005, there has been plenty of discussion about how this type of mapping technology has changed the way individuals orient themselves and whether or not the use of technology like Google Maps changes the way we see the world. In short, it has. However,...
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Why Bother? Examining the motivations of users in large-scale crowd-powered online initiatives
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This study examines the motivations of participants in networked, large-scale content production and research – a paradigm of distributed work magnified by the Internet. This has come to be called crowdsourcing. The approach taken in examining the crowdsourcing paradigm is of retrospection, with...