ONLY a few weeks into graduate school and aged just 22, Luis von Ahn helped crack one of the thorniest problems bedevilling the web. It was the year 2000 and free, web-based e-mail services were ...

Combining human and computer intelligence could help solve the world’s most vexing problems, researchers envisioned in an article published Monday in the journal Science. Researchers from Cornell ...

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At the heart of crowdsourcing, citizen science, and collective intelligence is human computation -- the science that aims to combine the unique strengths of humans and computers to create new ...

Researchers hope to answer this question by getting more volunteers to take part in their online game, Phrase Detectives. Researchers at the University of Essex hope to answer this question by getting ...

Imagine a machine so powerful it solves in five minutes a problem that would take today’s supercomputers 10 septillion years. That’s longer than the universe has existed. This isn’t science fiction; ...

This talk is about harnessing human time and energy to address problems that computers cannot yet solve. Although computers have advanced dramatically in many respects over the last 50 years, they ...