ECS - Crowdsourcing experts team up to accelerate cardiac response. Researchers from the University of Southampton will be collaborating with scientists from Masdar Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to tackle the MyHeartMap Challenge, using social network and crowdsourcing.
Launched today (Tuesday 31 January), by the University of Pennsylvania, MyHeartMap Challenge invites members of the public to participate by submitting geo-tagged pictures of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) they see around Philadelphia, to create an effective location database of AEDs. Masdar Institute’s computer scientists Dr Iyad Rahwan and Sohan D’Souza and University of Southampton computational game theorists James McInerney, Dr Victor Naroditskiy and Professor Nick Jennings, will join MIT Professor Sandy Pentland and UCSD Research Scientist Dr Manuel Cebrian, aiming to solve the MyHeartMap Challenge – and they are inviting social networkers to be involved in the activity.
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The debate seems to focus on one primary issue: Will there be encouraging risk-adjusted returns for investors on crowdfunding platforms? There is no definitive answer to the question, just as no one today can predict whether investors in US public equities, or any asset class for that matter, will make money. Description Here are three reasons that a well-regulated crowdfunding platform may deliver attractive returns for investors: 1. What’s Crowdsourcing Useful For?