Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration

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The talk

TED http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration.html

YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ht4qiDRZE8

dotSUB http://dotsub.com/view/40337fe2-d915-4f1e-84b1-8127e0a1803f


About the speaker

Profile http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn

Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/LuisvonAhn

Personal blog http://vonahn.blogspot.com/

Facebook fanpage http://www.facebook.com/pages/Luis-von-Ahn/108254389203470

Research http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/research.html

C.V. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/LuisvonAhn_CV.pdf

Publications http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/papers.html

Past projects


Related resources

Luis von Ahn (NOVA scienceNOW 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-dRIoj3_4

Human Computation (Computing Research that Changed the World 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aszl5avDtek

Human Computation (Google TechTalks 2006) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143#

For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU (Wired 2007) http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/ff_humancomp

Duolingo

reCAPTCHA

CAPTCHA art

goat-time with wind, pole, dragon question http://groups.google.com/group/shibboleth-users/browse_thread/thread/123bd2d82822a3a7?pli=1 (It seems the question is about Java, not JavaScript.)

The logos in the slide "Learning With Real Content" are of New York Times, Wikipedia and PBS.

Doulingo staff http://twitpic.com/4sjlpm


Translation Example

Input (German): Falls Pakistans Geschichte ein Indikator ist, so könnte Musharrafs Entscheidung, das Kriegsrecht zu verhängen, jener sprichwörtliche Tropfen sein, der das Fass zum Überlaufen bringt. (Source: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/abbas1/ )

Professional translator (20c/word): If Pakistan’s history is any indicator, Musharraf’s decision to impose martial law may prove to be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Duolingo: If Pakistan’s history is an indicator, Musharraf’s decision to impose martial law could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Google Translate: If Pakistan's history is any indicator, Musharraf could decide to impose martial law, be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.


Terms and expressions

Carnegie Mellon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University

Ticketmaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticketmaster

The Embassy of the Kingdom of God http://www.theembassyofgod.com/

JohnEdwards.com (currently dead link)

Snoop Dogg (rapper) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoop_Dogg

my nizzle: 'Fo shizzle my nizzle' is the same as saying 'for sure my bro!', or "you know it my friend". (answers.com)

For cultural context, if many things Snoop Dog is famous for is the way he talks, or rather the way he played on words, for one short period of his long term celebrity, where he modified words by adding '-izz' or '-izzle' or some variation there of to the middle of end of a word. So 'for sure my nigga' became 'for shizzle my nizzle'. [1]

Rosetta Stone (software for language learning)

Errata

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that can buy millions of tickets, two at a time.
that can buy millions of tickets at a time.

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(Laughter)
(Text: RESTART) (Laughter)

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CAPTCHA Project is something that we did here at Carnegie Melllon over 10 years ago,
CAPTCHA Project is something that we did here at Carnegie Mellon over 10 years ago,

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yet we can split into tiny 10-second chunks
but somehow we can split into tiny 10-second chunks

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is you start with an old book.
is you start with an old book, like a physical thing...

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So we get this. (Text: bad christians)
So we get this. (Text: bad Christians)

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(Laughter)
(Text: Yo, my nizzle, can you pass me that shvisle?) (Laughter)

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So the next sentence is is going to be the preamble to the question.
So the next sentence is going to be the preamble to the question.