The Value & Challenge of Complexity
Complexity, according to Wikipedia, “describes the behavior of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules.” Each complex thing may be complex in its own way, and it’s up…
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NASA Offering Cash for Crowdsourcing Ideas for Moon & Space Exporation
NASA Developing Public-Private Partnerships via Crowdsourcing NASA is now using crowdsourcing to get fresh, new ideas from private companies and scientists for instruments that could be used to study and explore the surface of the…
Human Participatory Sensing Data Leading to Huge New Bodies of Knowledge
Sensing technologies will soon allow more information collection than ever before imagined. New uses of sensing technologies include the crowdsourcing of geographic information and knowledge, a large number of urban planning applications that will enable…
Top Companies Turning to Internal Crowdsourcing Platforms to Supercharge Productivity
Dr. Lav Varshney, assistant professor of Computer & Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois’ Coordinated Science Lab, believes the holy grail of business productivity comes from maximizing the number of tasks that are given…
MIT Climate CoLab Leverages Collective Intelligence to Solve Climate Change
Annual Call for Proposals In the run-up to this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, taking place from November 30 to December 11, 2015 in Paris, MIT Climate CoLab has issued an international call for…
Could Crowdsourcing Bring the Next Great Invention to Life?
“If at first an idea is not absurd,” Albert Einstein said, “then there is no hope for it.” While the best inventors of the modern era include: Kia Silverbrook: 3,847 patents; Shunpei Yamazaki 2,061 patents; and…
