NBC Learn — the educational arm of NBC News — is out with a new video about crowdsourcing, featuring Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Luis von Ahn and his work with CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA, and, most recently, Duolingo. The video — part of a “Science Behind the News” video series developed in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore advances in science and technology making the news — describes von Ahn’s efforts to digitize books and translate the web into foreign languages. Check out the clip after the jump…
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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for August 28th, 2012
Luis von Ahn Featured in NBC Learn Video on Crowdsourcing
August 28th, 2012 / in Research News / by Erwin GianchandaniA Workshop on Quantum Information Science
August 28th, 2012 / in big science, research horizons, resources / by Erwin GianchandaniOn Sept. 28 and 29, the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) — a partnership of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Maryland — will convene a workshop on Quantum Information Science in Computer and Natural Sciences at the Marriott Inn and Conference Center in College Park, MD. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in connection with its recent interdisciplinary faculty program in quantum information science, this workshop is part of a broader effort to respond to the January 2009 National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) report on “A Federal Vision for Quantum Information Science.” We are interested in bringing the computer science and mathematics community to look more closely at […]
