[Cs5500] Office hour / Fwd: TALK:Thursday 4-7-11 The Lessons of Ancient Crowdsourcers

[Karl Lieberherr]

You are developing a crowd sourcing tool. With SCG Court you can
source intelligent crowds from
all over the world. It might be interesting to know about lessons from
the 1800s.
If one of you has time to go, please let me know.

I have to change my office hour of today to Friday 12.45 pm - 1.45pm.
Sorry for the second change.

-- Karl


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The Lessons of Ancient Crowdsourcers
Speaker: David Alan Grier
Speaker Affiliation: George Washington University
Host: Rob Miller
Host Affiliation: MIT CSAIL

Date: 4-7-2011
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Refreshments: 9:45 AM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil Conference Room)

Far from being a modern phenomenon, crowdsourcing actually has ancient roots
that can be traced to the mid 18th century.  In looking at ancient examples of
this form of labor, we find that the organizers of these groups struggled with
the same problems that we see it is modern instantiation.  At the same time,
we see patterns that better understand this kind of labor, notably the
foundation of this work in economic hardship and the constant push to move
this form of work into more conventional structures.

Bio: David Alan Grier teaches the cornerstone course in the International
Science & Technology Policy Program. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from
Middlebury College and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington
in Seattle. He has published extensively on the development of computation and
the institutions that support computation in publications ranging from the
American Mathematical Monthly to The Washington Post. He has been the Joseph
Henry Lecturer at the Washington Philosophical Society. He currently writes
the column and blog "The Known World" for IEEE Computer and has served as the
editor-in-chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. His first
book, When Computers Were Human, was published by Princeton University Press
in spring 2005. His second, Too Soon to Tell, was published in the spring of
2009 by John Wiley.


This seminar is jointly sponsored by MIT CSAIL and the MIT Center for
Collective Intelligence.

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For more information please contact: Rob Miller, x4-6028, rcm at mit.edu

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