Human Computation

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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

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