The New York Times Bits Blog featured a long piece by Steve Lohr on XRay, “a reverse-engineering machine that models the correlations made by web services.” As you browse the web, shop
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Crowdsourcing experts by Michael Bernstein
Michael Bernstein’s work about crowdsourcing expertise and problem-solving is featured on a new video. He shows how to dynamically assemble and manage paid online experts. Bernstein is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford,
Brown goes to Washington
Ashish Goel and Tanja Aitamurto represented the Stanford Crowdsourced Democracy Team last week at a White House conference organized by Lynn Overmann, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer. They gave a small presentation
Participatory Democracy Trial
The Participatory Democracy team at Stanford, led by Professor Ashish Goel from MS&E and Tanja Aitamurto from Stanford, UC Berkeley and University of Tampere, Finland, conducted a successful trial of their online
Brown Fellow David Chen wins Capocelli Award
David Chen’s paper, “Interframe Coding of Global Image Signatures for Mobile Augmented Reality,” presented in March at the Data Compression Conference, has been selected to receive the prestigious Capocelli Award, given
Bushwig at PCA/ACA
Adam and Jessa from the Bushwig Magic Grant will present their work at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Meeting in Chicago this week. They will speak on identity curation, or rather,
CityBeat Demo
CityBeat, a social media mining news project, will be featured at the Hacks/Hackers NYC Demo Day on Monday, March 17. Raz Schwartz of Cornell Tech and Alyssa Katz of The New York
Magic Grant CityBeat accepted to WWW 2014
Congratulations to members of the 2013/14 Magic Grant CityBeat, whose paper was accepted to the demo track at WWW 2014. Their paper, “CityBeat: Real-time Social Media Visualization of Hyper-local City