Crowdcomputing Challenge : Building Next Generation Global Community Service
Andrei Villarroel Visiting Professor (MIT Sloan), Edward Benson
Fri Jan 14, 05-08:00pm, NE25-746 See website, Intro, Teams, Rules, Launch
Sat Jan 15, 09am-08:00pm, NE25-746 See website, All day hackathon
Sun Jan 16, 09am-06:00pm, NE25-746 See website, Demo and Awards
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 14-Jan-2011
Limited to 30 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Programming skills, innovative and entrepreneurial spirit!
Harness the "power of the crowds" to solve a problem of great value to society, for which there are no government resources to dedicate, and no private profits to entice businesses to solve them. YOU WIN!
1. Motivation
Society is avidly embracing new ‘crowdcomputing platforms’ that enable near real-time assembly of distributed resources held by large numbers of people dispersed throughout the planet. The purposeful online assembly of vast amounts of individual contributions into meaningful collective outcomes results in the generation of novel and unprecedentedly valuable assets for human kind. Amazon Mechanical Turk unveiled the first general-purpose human computer, offering an API to automate the process of distributing work to large numbers of people around the world. Many programmatic tools to tap these resources are becoming available, which we will provide you with. Our ability to design human-computing systems with global reach is being greatly simplified.
2. Challenge
Envision the new possibilities brought about by “crowdcomputing” systems, and turn vision into reality.
3. Prize
Have fun, learn, and win a summer internship in Europe!
Web: http://www.crowdcomputingchallenge.info
Contact: Andrei Villarroel, NE25-791, (617) 299-1477, andreiv@mit.edu
Sponsor: Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez, NE25-792, 617 984-9191, andreiv@mit.edu
Latest update: 13-Jan-2011
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