abstract:

Crowdsourcing has greatly influence our world in the past decades. Today, we can see useful crowdsourcing applications everywhere.  For example, Wikipedia’s 23 million users have created over 4 million English articles, a resource over 100 times larger than any other encyclopedia. Similarly, StackOverflow has become a top resource for programmers with 14 million answers to 8.5 million questions. In this talk, I will introduce you to the history of crowdsourcing research, and the state-of-the-art crowdsourcing applications. Finally, I will conclude the talk by my vision about how crowdsourcing, combining with AI, can drastically change the way we interact with the computer systems.