Innovations in technology and social media have now made it possible for citizen scientists (volunteer enthusiasts) to participate in expanding the scope and reach of modern research through crowdsourcing endeavors. Leave your mark on the advancement of science by participating in any one of these emerging projects.
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People-Powered Data Visualization
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Through crowdsourcing and citizen science projects, the general public is making profound contributions to research. Can data visualization help make sense of this wealth of new information?
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Neuroscientists in Toronto have shown that crowdsourcing brain data with hundreds of adults in a short period of time could be a new frontier in neuroscience and lead to new insights about the brain.
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Can You Solve The Mystery Of This Medieval Sword?
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The British Library is calling on the public to help solve a mystery nearly 800 years in the making: Just what is written on this sword? The double-edged sword, which is part of an exhibition on the
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My Retina Tracker Is Crowdsourcing Blindness Research
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There are hundreds of genetic mutations that could end up causing blindness, and very few patients for each mutation. My Retina Tracker is attempting to crowdsource as much information as possible to cure previously little-researched blindness-related diseases.
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The Science of Naming Pluto Surface Features: Crowdsourcing
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NASA’s New Horizons team unloaded the burden of naming extraordinary geological features and is sharing it with enthusiasts around the world.
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You Can Now Crowdsource Your Medical Diagnoses, But Should You?
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The hive mind is no substitute for a doctor
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NASA Wants Your Help to Classify Weird Mars Terrain
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Members of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) science team are asking the public to help them categorize strange features near the Red Planet's south pole for further study and analysis.
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NASA Partners with InnoCentive to Crowdsource Innovation Initiatives | Business Wire
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InnoCentive Inc., the pioneer in crowdsourced innovation and Challenge Driven InnovationTM announced they were chosen to collaborate with NASA on thei
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Biochemists launch crowdsourcing site to combat bad data
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Chemical probes used in pharma studies get TripAdvisor-like website
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Crowdsourcing Capitalists: How Duolingo's Founders Offered Free Education To Millions
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Duolingo teaches English to millions for free, as the nonprofit Khan Academy does with math. But its founders want to make real money so the service lasts.
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NASA turns to crowdsourcing for help building future space projects
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is turning to a powerful source in solving the problems faced by astronauts: the public at large.
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Crowdsourcing the Serengeti: how citizen scientists classified millions of photos from home
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Sometimes the best way to deal with mountains of data is to turn to the public for help. That's what Snapshot Serengeti did to classify millions of photos from savanna camera traps in Tanzania.
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Scientists Crowdsource the Brain to Help Unlock Its Secrets | Big Think
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Researchers observe neurofeedback speeds, the likes of which a lab has never seen.
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Ateneo launches crowdsourcing app for real-time disaster-response
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The Ateneo De Manila University on Tuesday launched its eBayanihan project, a mobile and web-based response system that allows users to share information about disasters in real-time.
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Black rhino genome will be sequenced before it’s too late, thanks to crowdfunding
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Just over 100 years ago, there were more than one million black rhinos roaming the African savannah. But the harsh realities of poaching and habitat loss have left only 5,055 of the animals on the planet. Now, thanks to science fans around the...
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How crowdsourcing revealed amazing images of Serengeti wildlife
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University of Minnesota doctoral candidate Alexandra Swanson had no good way of sorting through the 1.2 million photos snapped by her hidden cameras in the Serengeti, so she turned to citizen scientists.
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Xeno-canto: crowdsourcing the world's birdsongs | @GrrlScientist
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GrrlScientist: Xeno-canto, which hosts the largest online collection of bird sound recordings in the world, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary
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Crowdsourced computational expertise to advance the social good
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William 'Buddy' Christopher has a problem. As commissioner of Boston's Inspectional Services Department, he is responsible for enforcing health regulations at the city's 3,043 restaurants. But regularly getting to all of them is a tall order for his team of 18 inspectors.
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NASA's New Horizon Probe Could Send Crowdsourced Data to Aliens
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The man responsible for the "golden record" on Voyager now wants to beam crowdsourced data to the New Horizons probe to take with it as it leaves the solar system.
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China and Crowdsourcing: The Rise of a New Green Generation? | New Security Beat
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The blog of the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program, with contributions from the Maternal Health Initiative, China Environment Forum, and more
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Marcus Shingles provides a Masterclass in Crowdsourcing
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If you've never been exposed to Crowdsourcing, here's a treat. Marcus Shingles, is among the most knowledgeable worldwide in this rapidly expanding area.
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A Process Model for Crowdsourcing Design: A Case Study in Citizen Science - The Governance Lab @ NYU
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Chapter by Kazjon Grace et al in Design Computing and Cognition ’14: “Crowdsourcing design has been applied in various areas of graphic design, software design, and product design. This paper draws on those experiences and research in diversity, creativity and motivation to present a process model f…
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Vancouver's fusion power startup has a new strategy: crowdsourcing | BC Business
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THE#BCBIZDAILY Plus, giant diamonds unearthed in Botswana and B.C.'s digital media sector gets frustrated Crowdsourcing high-tech challenges
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Have Allosaurus, Will Travel - Fossil Tales From the West
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The rock record is full of stories about life's history. Help me buy a field vehicle so that I can tell these prehistoric tales.
There are ways to nullify this, but as with studies, the efficacy of crowd-sourcing is in the design of the project.
Crowdsourced projects and skewed results: Research findings on participation and social...
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2015 and 2011 papers in PNAS that highlight dynamics within crowdsourcing projects and provide notes of caution around factors that can produce weaker or even flawed results.
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Biotech Wired – NASA steps up crowdsourcing initiative for Mars mission
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With the National Aeronautics and Space Administration looking to get serious about a manned mission to mars by the 2030s, the US space agency has stepped up its crowdsourcing initiative to help overcome some of the trip’s challenges.
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Crowdsourcing The Human Telescope | Techdirt
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One of the most interesting realizations in recent years is that done right, massive, open collaborations are not just an efficient way of working, but they scale in a way that can take us to entirely new levels. A good example -- and perhaps the...
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Crowdsourced tool for depression beats conventional self-help technique - ScienceBlog.com
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March 30, 2015 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Researchers at MIT and Northwestern University have developed a new peer-to-peer networking tool that enables sufferers of anxiety and depression to build …
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How Did Ebola Volunteers Know Where To Go In Liberia? Crowdsourcing!
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Kpetermeni Siakor was 900 miles from home when Ebola struck. But with special software, he helped direct volunteers and supplies to the right spots.
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Getting a Push Notification on Your Cell Phone? It Could Be Warning You About an Earthquake
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Sophisticated GPS sensors in the average mobile device could be harnessed for seismic early warning systems around the world
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If you want to think outside the box, ask someone outside the box for their thoughts.
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UGA researchers to use crowdsourcing to track harmful algal blooms in Georgia’s lakes | UGA Today
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CyanoTRACKER is a ‘neighborhood watch system for Georgia waters’
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Flight MH370 search gets crowdsourced help from scientists
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Eighteen scientists and mathematicians found each other online, put their collective expertise together and calculated the most likely place the Malaysian Airlines plane crashed.
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Thirty new fly species found in LA's urban sprawl - life - 27 March 2015 - New Scientist
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A citizen science project in Los Angeles has discovered 30 previously unknown species of fly
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Citizen Scientists Are Helping NASA Map the Aurora Like Never Before
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The aurora borealis that took place on St. Patrick's day was spectacular, but aside from being the strongest geomagnetic storm in a decade, there's another reason it was special. It was the first time that thousands of citizen scientists tweeted about the aurora to help NASA construct a detailed glo…
Well, technically its been around since 1857 when the Philological Society of London crowdsourced entries for the future Oxford English Dictionary.
Quirky Facts You Didn’t Know About Crowdsourcing
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Jo Sabin, marketing communications manager of DesignCrowd, a logo, web and graphic design marketplace, writes in to shed light on some of the less known facts about crowdsourcing.
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In True Citizen Science Fashion, Crowdsourcing a Bibliography - CitizenSci
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Books on a library shelf (CC0 Public Domain) Record of the first bibliography can be traced back to the Ancient Library of Alexandria. The former Macedonia
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How Amazon's crowdsourcing forum, Mechanical Turk, could be destroying academic research
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"Turkers" are people who are essentially making their living by filling out questionnaires all day long, day after, month after month, year after year.
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Foundation uses crowdsourcing to raise funds to acquire Canaan Valley Institute from NOAA
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CHARLESTON, West Virginia - The National Science Foundation is raising money to acquire the Canaan Valley Institute building and operate it as a regional STEM hub.
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OHMS: Enhancing Oral History Online | | Saving StoriesSaving Stories
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The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History created a web-based, system called OHMS to enhance access to oral history online.
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Detecting Potentially Dangerous Asteroids & Comets
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The Planetary Society recognizes the threat that asteroids and comets--known as Near Earth Objects, or NEOs--represent. While an asteroid strike could have devastating effects, the good news is that an asteroid impact is the only natural disaster that is completely preventable. Our most important pr…
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Do you have it in you? Join the Flu Near You project to help track flu activity in the United States.
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Scientists Use Thousands of Crowdsourced Images to Study Genetics of the Brain
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DNA data and medical images combined to find clues to brain size.
Hollywood is soliciting ideas for a new TV series that will star a MacGyver like women engineer.
Hollywood Is Crowdsourcing for the Next ‘MacGyver'
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Hollywood is reaching out for your help to create the next “MacGyver” (or, for the younger future engineers, the next “CSI”).
Opportunity to submit video stories about being inspired by women in science. Deadline is quickly approaching.
Crowdsourcing Women in Science and Engineering | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network
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I could statistic you to death about how women are still underrepresented in science and engineering, but let me just give you this one about what ...
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RLI 277 9 Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription
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RLI 277 9 Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription Nicole Saylor, Head, Digital Library Services, University of Iowa Libraries Jen Wolfe, Metadata Librarian, University of Iowa Libraries Cmeasure, and rectify archival materials. Social media tools are makingrowdsourci…
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CrowdFlower Predicts Data Science Trends for 2015 [Infographic]
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Crowdsourcing and big data go well together. So it’s hardly surprising that the crowdsourcing company CrowdFlower recently put out an infographic predicting where data science is headed in 2015. Check it out after the jump!
Overly long article highlighting why it is important to have safeguards built into your computer based crowdsourcing projects if you want them to be at all effective.
How a lone hacker shredded the myth of crowdsourcing
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High-tech analysis of a 2011 DARPA Challenge suggests that far from being wise, crowds can’t be trusted
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Crowdsourcing yields a more accurate picture of rainfall and snowfall
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It's the season of dramatic weather, when everyone from the National Weather Service to farmers and insurers monitor predictions of weather conditions—and assessments of where severe weather and its impacts are greatest. In this environment, a citizen science project called CoCoRaHS—the Community ..…
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Bring It On Home: The Oxford English Dictionary
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The New York Public Library subscribes to hundreds of online research databases and electronic resources. While these resources are accessible at NYPL's research centers and branch libraries, many of them are also available to Library cardholders remotely.
If you are seeing robins show up in your neighborhood, take photos and upload here to help track their migration.
Robins | Citizen Scientists Track American Robin Migration | Journey North
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Welcome to Journey North's American Robin Migration Tracking Project. Beginning in February, citizen scientists across North America are invited to report their first robin of spring, waves of migrating robins, and the first robin song of spring. Please report these observations
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You can earn $13,000 a year selling your poop
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Yes, your feces are perhaps your greatest untapped monetary resource.
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Agencies' apps use crowdsourcing to gather data, provide services
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Map the coastline? Report on the weather? Check mobile phone speeds? Agencies use crowdsourcing do to what they could not on their own.
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Making Use of 500,000 Researchers: Tales from the Zooniverse
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Zooniverse.org is the world's largest and most successful collection of online citizen science projects, and has enabled volunteers to classify more than a million galaxies, discover planets around other stars, transcribe more than a million pages of ships' logs and even sort through ancient papyri.…
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All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections
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Users are generating that reality every day at The New York Public Library through two landmark crowdsourcing endeavors, What’s on the Menu? and Map Rectifier. The former enlists the public in the transcription of historical menus, and the latter allows users to “rectify” historical maps by overlayi…
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Collecting geomagnetic field data through crowd-sourcing
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Scientists at the National Geophysical Data Centre, Boulder, U.S., which is an affiliate of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, have come up with a novel way to crowd-source geomagnetic data for
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At a recent internal hacking event here, NYPL Labs developer Paul Beaudoin recruited me into an interesting project: transforming one of the library's 20,000 digitized historical maps into the three-dimensional world of the building game Minecraft.
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Crowdsourcing used in Genghis Khan tomb search
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Researchers from the University of California San Diego have written 'Crowdsourcing the Unknown: The Satellite Search for Genghis Khan,' published last month on PLOS ONE, the peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication. Briefly, they charged an online crowd of volunteer participants with the chal…
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E. Howard Clock Orders Ledger Volume 91,554 ContributionsCan you help us review these ledgers which detail the sales of E. Howard Clock Company's timepieces?
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MicroPasts Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Archaeological Research
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MicroPasts, a platform developed by University College London (UCL) and the British Museum, is bringing together academic researchers and laymen interested in archaeology and history to help create high-quality data and attempt to uncover secrets of the p
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Crowdsourcing with mobile apps brings 'big data' to psychological research
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A fast-paced game app where players pretend they are baggage screening officers operating airport X-ray scanners has provided researchers with billions of pieces of data in record time, according to an article published by the American Psychological Association.
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Prof. mixes business with science
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A Florida State Professor mixes business methods with scientific research.
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IBM Crowdsourcing Computing Power to Help Ebola Research
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IBM's Softlayer cloud technology, World Community Grid is providing an aide in computing power to scientists researching cures to Ebola.
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Scientists turn to crowdsourcing for Ebola cure; link between sleep and cancer: health news
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Researchers hope to harness unused computer power to find a drug against Ebola and scientists at Virginia Tech identify a protein responsible for regulating the body's sleep cycle. The protein plays a role in cell division.
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Feds developing plan for crowdsourcing, citizen science
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Open Innovation Toolkit will guide agencies on leveraging citizen involvement.
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UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs
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Phys.org Science News Wire : UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from Phys.org staff.
Crowdsourcing Connects World of Work With World of Knowledge | SYS-CON MEDIA
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SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world's leading i-technology media company on breaking technology news.
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Crowdsourcing project predicts progression of neurodegenerative disease
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A $50,000 award spurs innovation in the quest to better treat ALS patients
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Crowdsourcing funds long-term seabird study
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Zoology professor Tim Birkhead reaches crowdfunded target to maintain his long-term study of guillemots on Skomer
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Crowdsourcing methods to fight Psa
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Crowdsourcing has been used to raise money for a start-up business or for a charity, and the concept is now being trialled in the interests of science to tackle kiwifruit disease Psa.
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GB Sciences and NRC Research Institute Apply Crowdsourcing and Big Data Analytics to the...
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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 10, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GrowBLOX Sciences, Inc., "GB Sciences" (OTCQB:GBLX), a company that merges state-of-the-art technologies in plant biology, cultivation technology and post-production processes in order to optimize safe and consistent medicinal cannabis, and NRC Research I…
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Crowdsourced research might be a democratic way to engage the public in scientific issues and provide researchers with much needed resources.
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UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs
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Phys.org Science News Wire : UTA engineer uses advanced sensing, crowdsourcing to predict urban water flow, city needs -- a press release is provided to you ìas isî with little or no review from Phys.org staff.
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Apple is now crowdsourcing business listings to help make Maps better
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For years you've been able to report inaccurate or otherwise lacking information from Apple Maps listings. The company has also employed what's known as "ground truth" personnel, people whose job...
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Crowdsourcing To Solve Microbe Mysteries
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The participation of citizen scientists could help complete a metagenomics project in months instead of the 40,000 years required for a single PC.
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Tesla —the other one —nets a big crowdfunding win
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The last remaining lab of "mad scientist" Nikola Tesla will open it doors to the public this summer after a fundraising campaign saved the site.
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Crowdsourcing research for diseases
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There are more than 10,000 diseases on the planet, asthma to zygomycosis. Geoffrey Siwo wants to cure all of them. And the 35-year-old computational biologist believes he can.
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NASA Launches New Citizen Science Site ‘Solve’
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NASA, the US aeronautics and space agency, announced last week the launch of ‘Solve,’ a dedicated destination for its open innovation challenges. To help promote the launch of the platform, NASA kicked off a ‘Mars Balance Mass Challenge,’ which will run u
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Smarter video games, thanks to crowdsourcing
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Brian J. Matis/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Friday, September 26, 2014 - 2:00pm Smarter video games, thanks to crowdsourcing Despite the stereotypes, any serious gamer knows it’s way more fun to play with real people than against the computer. Video game artificial intelligence, or AI, just isn’t very g…
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Crowdsourcing the Collection of Oceanographic Data >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News
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Feature Crowdsourcing the Collection of Oceanographic Data Published on September 16, 2014 | by Editor Tweet With cutbacks in research dollars around the world, a group of international biologists believes it’s time for some DIY (Do It Yourself) science. The team is developing simple observations an…
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Average Joe as Oceanographer? Crowdsourcing Goes to Sea (With Caveats) - NBC News
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The promise is awesome: thousands of sailors voluntarily collecting valuable ocean data as they cross the seas — work that would cost hundreds of millions of...
Way to go DiverLaura and all others who have participated in the SeaStar Wasting Disease tracking project(s).
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Our voices and efforts were heard... Press release for proposed Marine Disease Emergency Act
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Citizen science invites sabotage
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Scientists and researchers are increasingly looking to volunteers to help fund and do the leg-work on big science projects. But a study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface is warning such projects attract sabotage and mightn't be worth the trouble.
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Crowdsourcing and oceanography, a mix made out of necessity | Going Green | The Earth Times
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How can science cope with the vast expanses of maritime area and all the problems the oceans have? Employ everybody who’s out there, that’s how. Sailors and lubbers, sinners and saints can all join in to add to the desperately deficient data. We do need to know what and why, how and why the denizens…
This is why the better crowdsourced projects have balanced QA steps in place. Like collecting 5 transcriptions from different people, and only accepting the popular submissions, in order to weed out mistakes and misinformation.
Research finds crowdsourcing is vulnerable to malicious behaviour | Electronics and Computer...
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Related Links:• Dr Victor NaroditskiyNew research has found that malicious behaviour is the norm in crowdsourcing competitions — even when it is in everyone’s interest to cooperate.Crowdsourcing provides the ability to accomplish information-gathering tasks that require the involvement of a large nu…
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Crowdsourcing has started to affect the course of research, for better or worse
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Crowdsourcing The Sounds Of Earth - Science News - redOrbit
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In conjunction with Earth Day celebrations on Tuesday – Bryan Pijanowski, an ecology professor at Purdue University, encouraged smartphone owners around the world to download and use an app he developed to record the sounds around them.
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Crowdsourcing Conservation: Microsoft Releases Free Tool for Tracking Animals
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The free software could provide scientific insights that help threatened species.
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Online Video Game Plugs Players Into Real Biochemistry Lab
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37,000 volunteers co-author paper on RNA folding
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What Motivates the Crowd to Participate?
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Every day, people face thousands of choices on how to spend their time on the web. Given the huge amount of options that people have to allocate their time, why do a growing number of people participate on crowdsourcing sites?
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Citizen Science: Scientists find cheap way to collect data - You - Features
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In Israel, observations by bird watchers, butterfly buffs and seafarers have helped protect biodiversity. Now a new program is calling for laypersons to identify hitherto unknown insects.
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Going Up: LiftPort Gets Set for Crowdfunded Space Elevator Test - NBC News
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For decades, visionaries have dreamed about building space elevators that could carry payloads into orbit for a fraction of what it costs for a rocket launch...
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The Golden Record 2.0 Will Crowdsource A Selfie of Human Culture | Science | Smithsonian
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Inspired by a similar effort in the 1970s, the project wants your help in creating a portrait of humanity to send out of the solar system
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Why Crowdsourcing Matters in a Disaster
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The Office of Naval Research sponsored a demonstration showing how crowdsourcing could speed response times to critical locations, save lives, and limit damage caused by natural disaster. <a href="http://science.dodlive.mil/2014/08/24/why-crowdsourcing-matters-in-a-disaster/"><br/>Read More</a>
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Crowdsourcing the retina’s motion detection mechanism | Mo Costandi
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A citizen science project to map neural connections in the retina may have answered the long-standing question of how our eyes detect motion.
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A New Way to See Earthquakes: Peoples’ Fitness Trackers | Smart News | Smithsonian
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Yesterday's Napa earthquake woke people up
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Five Ways To Get Involved in Science Without Going Back to School
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Amateur naturalists have played a significant role in environmental research for over a century. The internet makes it possible to organize on a whole new
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Is crowdsourcing the future of scientific research?
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Casey O'Donnell, an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, has received a grant from the National Science Foundation of $156,000 to examine how collaborative online games are being used to solve problems in the world of biochemistry and molecular p…
LabCandy - This Is What A Scientist Looks Like.
Kickstarter to fund a makeover on the learning killjoy that is the drab labcoat experience.
Our cool lab gear, storybooks, and science activities for young girls will inspire the next generation of innovators.
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New DC Startup Wants to Crowdsource the Future of Science
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Science is awesome, just ask the more than 13.6 million fans of the "I fucking love science" Facebook page. It's exactly those kinds of science enthusiasts that the new D.C. startup Endeavorist...
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Crowdsourcing the phase problem | (e) Science News
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Compared with humans, computers have the capacity to solve problems at much greater speed. There are many problems, however, where computational speed alone is insufficient to find a correct or optimal solution, for example because the parameter "space" cannot be fully searched in a practical time.…
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SciCast Calls for Science, Technology Experts to Make Predictions
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SciCast takes crowdsourced predictions one step further, uniquely placing emphasis on relationships among questions and outcomes. "On SciCast, forecasts can influence each other," explains Charles Twardy, research assistant professor, George Mason University and a SciCast Principal Investigator. "Fo…
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Ask the crowd: Robots learn faster, better with online helpers | Science Codex
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University of Washington computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks. Instead of learning from just one human, robots could one day query the larger online community, asking
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Debut for science’s shot at informing global development
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Crowdsourcing could help to identify emerging development issues and ensure the global development agenda is more representative of views from the global South, says a prototype of a planned one-stop-shop report compiling science advice for development.
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As nutty as it may seem to the uninitiated, the notion of looking for alien artifacts on our own Moon may finally be gaining mainstream scientific traction. There are good reasons to seriously consider the possibility that at some point in the Earth-Moon system’s storied 4.5 billion year-old history…
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Crowdsourcing science goes boom
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World-renowned astrophysicist Chris Lintott believes the next scientific discovery could come from you.
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Appirio's Crowdsourcing Community Creates Breakthrough Solutions to Support the Advancement of...
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 7, 2014) - Appirio today announced that, in partnership with the Harvard NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), the company and its [topcoder]™ community are helping NASA and other government agencies solve some of their most complex real-world challenges. Over the la…
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Crowdsourcing the Olinguito - Smithsonian Science
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One year ago, the olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina) stepped out of the forest shadows into the spotlight and onto the pages of science—the first carnivore species …
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Volunteers help British Museum in crowdsourcing archeology project
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Thousands log on to transcribe handwritten catalogue dating back to 18th century and put 30,000 ancient objects online
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The Smithsonian Wants You! (To Help Transcribe Its Collections) | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
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A massive digitization and transcription project calls for volunteers at the Smithsonian
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Scientists Want You to Help Crowdsource Night Lights - NBC News
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NASA has amassed more than 1.3 million pictures of Earth as seen from the International Space Station, and about a third of them were taken at night. The spa...
In an attempt to help scientist better understand the extinct of the sea star wasting disease, Laura James' efforts to involve citizen scientist in collecting data is highlighted in this CCTV America news story.
Millions of sea stars are dying with no explanation
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Imagine a population of millions of people at any given spot in the world suddenly dying with no explanation. The marine world equivalent of this is actually happening right now with the mass death...
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NASA's Lost Satellite Just Made Its First Contact With Earth in 17 Years
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It's official: ISEE-3, the 36-year-old satellite that NASA left for dead over a decade ago, is back in touch with humankind. This afternoon, a group of citizen scientists who raised almost $160,000 to fund the process of taking control of ISEE-3 announced that two-way contact has been established wi…
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Evolved Science: Crowds Can Catalog Bugs Faster
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Thousands of non-scientists sitting at their home computers may now be as useful as a single Einstein thanks to online crowdsourcing. What once took years, now takes days.
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University scientists, entrepreneur turn to crowd-sourcing to pay for beef research
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DENVER - An entrepreneur with a "fishy" idea for making beef healthier is turning to crowd-sourcing to pay for research at Colorado State University.
Help Track the migration of Birds and Butterflies this season.
Journey North: A Global Study of Wildlife Migration and Seasonal Change
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Journey North is a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. Journey North is an online science education project in which students track spring's journey across the northern hemisphere.
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Help Transcribe Diaries From World War I
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WWI diaries are some of the most requested documents in the National Archives, but until now they've only been available on paper
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U.S. company puts crowdsourcing to work in search for Malaysian jet
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DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado-based company has put "crowdsourcing" to work in the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet, enlisting Internet users to comb through satellite images of more than 1,200 square miles (3,200 square km) of open seas for any signs of wreckage, the company said on Tuesd...
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Crowdfund shark research and a cyberpunk film by Larry Hama
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The man who built up GI Joe's mythology in comics has a new story to tell about Homeland Security's Cyber Crime Division. You can also help fund documentaries about women in comics and Batman collaborator Bill Finger—or send your dollars toward research into the feeding habits of sharks.
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Crowdsourced sea lion photos to help scientists study whisker spot patterns
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Western Australian researchers are calling for photos of sea lion snouts to aid new method of identifying the endangered species
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Citizen Scientists search for #SickStarfish
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As a mysterious wasting diseases continues to ravage the populations of sea stars up and down the West Coast of North America, concerned divers Laura James and Lamont Granquist have organized their own crowdso…
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As federal research grants dry up, more and more institutions are turning to crowdfunding for their projects. This article discusses the pitfalls and opportunities in either option. It also highlights some of the successful…
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Antitumor Compound found in Unusual Fungus | Crowdsourcing for Science
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In this Spectroscopy Now article, David Bradley discusses how a potential antitumor compound was discovered through the efforts of crowdsourcing...
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Crowdsourcing the Garden | Crowdsourcing for Science
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This past Fall, scientist started cataloging crowd input to track when various plants start to change colors in fall. A simple smart phone app allowed volunteers to upload images from their gardens to the USA National Phenology Network. The…
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Australians fund their own Climate Commission | Crowdsourcing for Science
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Another example of citizen-science activism. Following outrage at their prime ministers action to dismantle the country’s Climate Commission, Australians reacted by raising AUD $800,000 in less than 3 days…
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Crowdsourced Disaster Response
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In this Scientific American article, Declan Butler discusses how volunteers helped coordinate Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts by analyzing satellite images.
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Antitumor Compound found in Unusual Fungus | Crowdsourcing for Science
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In this Spectroscopy Now article, David Bradley discusses how a potential antitumor compound was discovered through the efforts of crowdsourcing...
Crowdsourcing for ScienceAnd another article: www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/12/crowdsourcing-delivers-promising-anticancer-fungi-compound3 years ago
Crowdsourcing for ScienceHere is another article discussing the same project: bionews-tx.com/news/2013/12/12/crowdsourcing-diybio-research-efforts-reveal-unusual-fungal-metabo...3 years ago
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Find Near-Earth Objects | Crowdsourcing for Science
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NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data. The agreement is NASA’s first partnership ass…
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Journey North – Migration Mapping | Crowdsourcing for Science
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Anneberger Learner’s Journey North is a crowdsourcing endeavor that encourages citizens to report sightings of migrating birds. This data contributes to a global stud of wildlife migrations and seasonal change. Sighting…
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danceroom Spectroscopy | Crowdsourcing for Science
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David Glowacki has taken research-grade molecular simulations and imported them to an Xbox Kinect 3D system where video game players can interact with the molecular world in order to better understand theoretical chemistry.http://…
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Open-Phylo’s DNA Puzzles | Crowdsourcing for Science
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The Open-Phylo project represents a great leap forward in crowdsourcing technology for scientists. The web-interface allows researchers to upload Multiple Sequence Alignments, which are then converted into DNA puzzles which harn…
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The iSeahorse App | Crowdsourcing for Science
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A new smartphone app, called iSeahorse, allows citizen scientists to log sightings of seahorses in the wild. Due to their small size and camouflage, seahorses can be very hard to study. Scientists hope this new information will help t…
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Galaxy Zoo 2 update | Crowdsourcing for Science
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As an update to the ongoing efforts at Zooniverse’s Galaxy Zoo 2 project, 300,000 nearby galaxies have now been cataloged by 83,000 volunteers (from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey).In this crowdsourcing project, volunteer’s loaned their…
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Early Crowdsourcing Projects, 1857
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Early Crowdsourcing Projects, 1857April 22, 2013Crowd EffortsStephanie ZimmermanOne of the earliest (and well-documented) cases of crowdsourcing began in 1857 when a public request for definitionas was sent out to English readers. 70-million submissions later the Oxford English Dictionary was creat...
The Open Science movement, while not exactly crowdsourcing the masses, is still a very interseting development. Check out Sally James' article about the efforst in this by Seattle's own Stephen friend.
$1.7 million to open science’s Friend
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Two honors this summer have burnished the reputation of Seattle scientist Stephen Friend for his pursuit of what is called open science. On top of White House honors in June, he received a grant ...
Somehow, I think this lecture may provide some useful insights into why crowdsourcing the analysis of certain tasks is still more efficient for people to do than computers.
UW Science Now: Makrand Sinha: P vs. NP: The Limits of Computers AND Jingda Wu: NCQD: Print Your...
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In this double feature, UW researcher Makrand Sinha explores the P vs. NP question, one of computer science’s biggest unsolved mysteries, which asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer also can be quickly solved by a computer, and Jingda Wu explains how NCQD co...
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How to Prepare an Effective Crowdfunding Pitch
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Crowdfunding — whether through donated contributions or equity investments — is coming of age as a game changer for startups. Here’s how to create a persuasive pitch.
This makes me very happy to see NASA advertisements (crowdfunded) before scifi movies. Yes.
Star Trek Crowdfunding Effort Funds Pre-STID Space Program Trailer
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Star Trek News - A trailer designed to support the U.S. space program will run before Star Trek Into Darkness, thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign. StarTrek.com has the details!
Updates on how the climate data from the Old Weather crowdsourcing effort are being put to use:
Volunteers use historic U.S. ship logbooks to uncover Arctic climate data | UW Today
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March 28, 2013Volunteers use historic U.S. ship logbooks to uncover Arctic climate data By Hannah Hickey News and InformationPosted under: Environment, Research, ScienceCitizen-scientists around the world are poring through digital versions of 19th century logbooks of mariners who sailed from Pacifi...
Here is a different sort of study involving social networking cycles and anthropology.
Researchers are starting to apply formal social network analysis to archeological artifacts which is giving them a greater appreciation of the history of long distance cultural transmission and a deeper understanding of how social networks go through cycles of growth and collapse.
I would suspect that these historical patterns will work themselves out in our modern social networks as well - where technological development, mergers, and customer abandonment can create rapid sea changes. However, instead of taking centuries to finish a cycle, matured growth and fragmentation of networks can now take place in a matter of months.
Thanks for the tip @CatherineQ
Artifacts Shed Light on Social Networks of the Past | UANews
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The advent of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have made us all more connected, but long-distance social networks existed long before the Internet. A new study led by a UA anthropologist provides new information on social networks in the pre-Hispanic Southwest in A.D. 1200-1450. Amo...
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