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Venture with Wit Google of intention
Oct 20

Human Computation

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It’s in english, it’s fast but it’s brilliant.
It’s EPIC / The Matrix.

ABSTRACT //Google TechTalks//
Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve.
TALK FROM
Luis von Ahn is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2005.

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2 Responses to “Human Computation”

  1. leafar Says:
    October 22nd, 2006 at 1:34 am

    Google of intention

    I came across a very interesting article about Google and it’s a great second act to my post Venture with Wit. The journalist has asked several CEO of US Internet companies the following question : What Should Google Do Next?

  2. leafar Says:
    May 30th, 2007 at 9:31 pm

    reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher … Each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA.

    From greg