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
- http://duolingo.com/
- http://twitter.com/#!/duolingo
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo
- http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/12/duolingo/
- http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37487/
reCAPTCHA
- http://www.google.com/recaptcha
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA
- http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html
CAPTCHA art
- http://www.oddee.com/item_97737.aspx
- http://www.captchart.com/
- http://www.captchart.com/post/942282947/invisible-toaster-submitted-by-kellyholmo
- http://www.captchart.com/post/962755951/clenched-it-submitted-by-jerry
- http://www.captchart.com/post/1015420362/stoned-founders-submitted-by-moonblossom
- http://www.captchart.com/post/1082078562/paleontological-shvisle-submitted-by-skrugs
goat-time with wind, pole, dragon question http://groups.google.com/group/shibboleth-users/browse_thread/thread/123bd2d82822a3a7?pli=1
The logos in the slide "Learning With Real Content" are of New York Times, Wikipedia and PBS.
Doulingo staff http://twitpic.com/4sjlpm
- Luis von Ahn @luisvonahn
- Severin Hacker @severinhacker
- Antonio Navas @HashCoder
- Vicki Cheung @vmcheung
- Marcel Ueckermann @uekermann
- Brendan Meeder @bmeeder
- Hector Villafuerte @hectorvd
- Jose Fuentes @josefuents
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)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards
- http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/JohnEdwards.com (1999-2010)
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)
Rosetta Stone (software for language learning)
- http://www.rosettastone.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone_(software)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone_(company)
Errata
18 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 that can buy millions of tickets, two at a time. that can buy millions of tickets at a time. 32 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 (Laughter) (Text: RESTART) (Laughter) 33 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 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, 67 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 yet we can split into tiny 10-second chunks but somehow we can split into tiny 10-second chunks 79 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 is you start with an old book. is you start with an old book, like a physical thing... 148 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 So we get this. (Text: bad christians) So we get this. (Text: bad Christians) 261 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 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.