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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Rob Miller [mailto:rcm@MIT.EDU] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> Rosalind Williams<br><b>Subject:</b> David Grier visiting next Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Rosalind,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>David Alan Grier is visiting MIT next Thursday and giving a talk about crowdsourcing (see below).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>He mentioned that he spent time with STS on his last visit to MIT. &nbsp;If you could help circulate notice of his talk among people who might be interested, it would be much appreciated. &nbsp;If you or any of your colleagues want to meet him one-on-one while he's here, please feel free to sign up on his schedule:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Apn_E9DEIuTCdC00UWs0S1lDZFlOR3FEenMwOUNrR0E&amp;hl=en&amp;authkey=CLPQ4IIL#gid=0">https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Apn_E9DEIuTCdC00UWs0S1lDZFlOR3FEenMwOUNrR0E&amp;hl=en&amp;authkey=CLPQ4IIL#gid=0</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks very much!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Rob Miller<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MIT Computer Science &amp; Artificial Intelligence Lab<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.mit.edu/~rcm">http://www.mit.edu/~rcm</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Csail Event Calendar</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:eventcalendar@csail.mit.edu">eventcalendar@csail.mit.edu</a>&gt;<br>Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:01 AM<br>Subject: TALK:Thursday 4-7-11 The Lessons of Ancient Crowdsourcers<br>To: <a href="mailto:seminars@csail.mit.edu">seminars@csail.mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>The Lessons of Ancient Crowdsourcers<br>Speaker: David Alan Grier<br>Speaker Affiliation: George Washington University<br>Host: Rob Miller<br>Host Affiliation: MIT CSAIL<br><br>Date: 4-7-2011<br>Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM<br>Refreshments: 9:45 AM<br>Location: 32-G449 (Patil Conference Room)<br><br>Far from being a modern phenomenon, crowdsourcing actually has ancient roots<br>that can be traced to the mid 18th century. &nbsp;In looking at ancient examples of<br>this form of labor, we find that the organizers of these groups struggled with<br>the same problems that we see it is modern instantiation. &nbsp;At the same time,<br>we see patterns that better understand this kind of labor, notably the<br>foundation of this work in economic hardship and the constant push to move<br>this form of work into more conventional structures.<br><br>Bio: David Alan Grier teaches the cornerstone course in the International<br>Science &amp; Technology Policy Program. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from<br>Middlebury College and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington<br>in Seattle. He has published extensively on the development of computation and<br>the institutions that support computation in publications ranging from the<br>American Mathematical Monthly to The Washington Post. He has been the Joseph<br>Henry Lecturer at the Washington Philosophical Society. He currently writes<br>the column and blog &quot;The Known World&quot; for IEEE Computer and has served as the<br>editor-in-chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. His first<br>book, When Computers Were Human, was published by Princeton University Press<br>in spring 2005. His second, Too Soon to Tell, was published in the spring of<br>2009 by John Wiley.<br><br><br>This seminar is jointly sponsored by MIT CSAIL and the MIT Center for<br>Collective Intelligence.<br><br>Relevant URL(S):<br>For more information please contact: Rob Miller, x4-6028, <a href="mailto:rcm@mit.edu">rcm@mit.edu</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>Seminars mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Seminars@lists.csail.mit.edu">Seminars@lists.csail.mit.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/seminars" target="_blank">https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/seminars</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p></div></div></body></html>