Social-media. Human-Centered Computing: Toward a Human Revolution. March 2014 People often engage in collaborative information seeking to achieve common goals, enlist expertise, increase the scope of what can be searched, and even simply to help others.
In today's era of increased user-generated content and online sharing, computer and information scientists have a renewed interest in collaborative information seeking as an exciting area of research and development, with applications that range from education to e-commerce, with implications for areas that range from libraries to legal informatics. The Web extra at is a video in which proponents of collaborative information seeking discuss why supporting people's innate behavior and the need for working together while seeking and using information are important to computer science.
Featured speakers include Chirag Shah, Rob Capra, Madhu Reddy, Meredith Ringel Morris, Roberto González-Ibáñez, and Michael B. Twidale. About Computer Computer covers all aspects of computer science. Get Connected. Artificial Intelligence - Computers and the Internet - Technolog. Solve Puzzles for Science. Aardvark: A Better Social Q&A Than Twitter. Aardvark is a neat new service that lives in your IM client and which routes any question you might have to an Aardvark user who has the right expertise to answer your query.
In return, Aardvark will also send you a few questions every day that fit your profile. You then decide to either answer the question or refer it to another friend. Of course, you can also always pass if you don't know the answer. Aardvark will come out of its private beta during SXSW, but we have a few invites for you if you want to try it out now. Aardvark was developed by The Mechanical Zoo, a San Francisco-based company that raised $5.25 million from August Capital and Baseline Ventures last October. When you sign up with Aardvark, you simply add some basic information about your location, the topics you want to answer questions about, and your preferred IM client.
Get Ready to Participate: C. If You've Got Questions, Google Has The Answers - Google Bl. Pomoc Google: Google Answers for Poland. Pomoc Google: Google Answers for PolandBy Tony Ruscoe In much the same way that Google launched the Russian-only Knowledge Search almost exactly a year ago, a new Google Help site has now been launched by Google Poland.
The site’s FAQ page (available in English) explains: Google Help is a place where you can ask questions about Google services and give answers to questions posted by other users looking for help. Google Help is an unmoderated forum for users wanting to discuss Google Products. We encourage you to ask questions, answer questions from others and exchange experience. Fun with Proteins. I think almost anyone who has studied protein 3D structures would agree that it is a hard problem.
For the uninitiated, proteins are made out of chains of amino acids. Each amino-acid consists of a backbone and side-chains. The properties of the side-chains determine the structure that the chain will take on in 3D. For example, polar side-chains may repell each other, and hence tend not to be close.
Another example is hydrophobic ("water-fearing") side-chains which need to be on the inside of the protein, away from the water molecules that surround a protein inside the cell. There's more than one way to determine protein 3D structure. Or, well, you could just get people to do it by hand. That's the principle behind FoldIt, a new game based on, yes, you guessed it, protein structures.
FoldIt is currently in open Beta and completely free to play. Mosio - People Powered Mobile Search - SMS Search, Free Mobile Q. Mr. PeeTai » ระบบซอฟต์แวร์แบบ “บอลเกงกิ” Mike Grehan says... A guaranteed number one listing at Google!
I've been burning up my keyboard for the past two weeks none stop writing. So I've had little time to read any of the latest news around the various other blogs, forums etc. So, maybe this has been covered in great detail elsewhere. But I had to just quickly break and blog this when I saw it a few minutes ago. I certainly haven't seen this one in the States. Human-based search engine looks to hire would-be searchers. HumanGrid: Home. Social computation and creativity » Blog Archive » Scientific kn. Today I came across HBS working paper “The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving” by Karim Lakhani, Lars Jeppesen, Peter Lohse and Jill Panetta (link to 58 page PDF is here). The paper studies InnoCentive, a knowledge market similar to 3form that corporations use to solve their research problems unsolved by corporate R&D labs.
InnoCentive was founded by Eli Lilly & Company in 2001 and shares a significant similarity with 3form in organizing the distributed problem solving process, except that it does not broadcast solutions it receives, keeping them private for the corporation that posted the respective problem. As a result, the innovation process at InnoCentive while being distributed is not open: the solvers can’t modify or recombine the solutions proposed earlier or learn from them, as they do at 3form. However, the working paper shows that sharing problems by itself has many advantages over the traditional corporate practice of keeping them closed. .: LISTEN Game :.