Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
David Grier, Lessons from the Ancient History of Crowd Sourcing
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I’m here at the Citizen Cyberscience Summit for the next two days. Expect quite a few notes (although probably not all session!).
Lessons in crowdsourcing.
Nothing new under the sun. Science shaped by forces that have existed a long time, and we understand them. Works on calculation and making mathematical models work. That has long history as being citizen science, going back 200 years. Take large task, divide into small exchangeable jobs, send out into the world with instructions on how to do them. Charles Babbage wrote extensively about this in the 1830s.
Babbage was thinking about this because of
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