Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scientific breakthroughs isn’t setting any records. To resolve... Read more
Web-based system automatically evaluates proposals from far-flung data scientists. In the analysis of big data sets, the first step is usually the identification of “features” — data points... Read more
Researchers combine artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing and supercomputers to develop better, and more reasoned, information extraction and classification methods How do search engines ge... Read more
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed a new artificially intelligent system that crowdsources plots for interactive stories, which are popular in video games and let pla... Read more
As inventions go, Jake Zien’s was a clever fix rather than an imaginative breakthrough: Irritation was the mother of his invention. He found the standard power strip maddening because electr... Read more
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, acco... Read more
Crowdsourcing systems ease challenges in conference and trip planning If two minds are better than one, what could thousands of minds accomplish? The possibilities are endless — if res... Read more
In 1714, the British government held a contest. They offered a large cash prize to anyone who could solve the vexing “longitude problem” — how to determine a ship’s east/west position on the... Read more
OpenRov is being sold for $775 through its launch This cheap, crowdsourced submersible has recently begun taking maiden voyages in the world’s oceans, opening up the world of marine explorat... Read more
Everyone can see the resulting data and download it, including scientists A wealth of extra free genetic data could be at scientists’ fingertips if a new website allowing the public to... Read more
CROWDSOURCING A soured economy has prompted a boom in crowdsourcing, but this is a creative, efficient trend that will outlast the recession. Some have predicted that crowdsourcing is the fu... Read more
PERHAPS the biggest big idea to gather speed during the last millennium was that we humans might govern ourselves. But no one really meant it. Read more