Human Computation


Presenter(s):	Luis von Ahn, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Where:	Google Tech Talks
When:	July 26, 2006
Topics:	Human computation, games, CAPTCHA
Video:	GoogleVideo

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9 billion human-hours of solitare were played in 2003
To build Empire State Building - was spent 7 Million human-hours (6.8 hours of solitare player’s time)
To build Panama canal - was spent 20 Million human-hours (less then a day of solitare player’s time)
Humans can solve some problems, computers can solve some problems, together they cat create … MATRIX image
Computer vision is one of the hardest problems humans can solve easily

Date	July 26, 2006 +
GoogleVideo URL	http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143 +
Presented at	Google Tech Talks +
Presenter	Luis von Ahn +
Topic	Human computation +, Games +, and CAPTCHA +