[Sci-tech-public] FW: David Grier visiting next Thursday

[David Mindell]

From: Rob Miller [mailto:rcm at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:24 AM
To: Rosalind Williams
Subject: David Grier visiting next Thursday

 

Dear Rosalind,

 

David Alan Grier is visiting MIT next Thursday and giving a talk about crowdsourcing (see below).

 

He mentioned that he spent time with STS on his last visit to MIT.  If you could help circulate notice of his talk among people who might be interested, it would be much appreciated.  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:

 

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Apn_E9DEIuTCdC00UWs0S1lDZFlOR3FEenMwOUNrR0E <https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Apn_E9DEIuTCdC00UWs0S1lDZFlOR3FEenMwOUNrR0E&hl=en&authkey=CLPQ4IIL#gid=0> &hl=en&authkey=CLPQ4IIL#gid=0

 

Thanks very much!

 

Cheers,

Rob Miller

Associate Professor

MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab

http://www.mit.edu/~rcm

 

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Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:01 AM
Subject: TALK:Thursday 4-7-11 The Lessons of Ancient Crowdsourcers
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The Lessons of Ancient Crowdsourcers
Speaker: David Alan Grier
Speaker Affiliation: George Washington University
Host: Rob Miller
Host Affiliation: MIT CSAIL

Date: 4-7-2011
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Refreshments: 9:45 AM
Location: 32-G449 (Patil Conference Room)

Far from being a modern phenomenon, crowdsourcing actually has ancient roots
that can be traced to the mid 18th century.  In looking at ancient examples of
this form of labor, we find that the organizers of these groups struggled with
the same problems that we see it is modern instantiation.  At the same time,
we see patterns that better understand this kind of labor, notably the
foundation of this work in economic hardship and the constant push to move
this form of work into more conventional structures.

Bio: David Alan Grier teaches the cornerstone course in the International
Science & Technology Policy Program. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from
Middlebury College and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington
in Seattle. He has published extensively on the development of computation and
the institutions that support computation in publications ranging from the
American Mathematical Monthly to The Washington Post. He has been the Joseph
Henry Lecturer at the Washington Philosophical Society. He currently writes
the column and blog "The Known World" for IEEE Computer and has served as the
editor-in-chief of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. His first
book, When Computers Were Human, was published by Princeton University Press
in spring 2005. His second, Too Soon to Tell, was published in the spring of
2009 by John Wiley.


This seminar is jointly sponsored by MIT CSAIL and the MIT Center for
Collective Intelligence.

Relevant URL(S):
For more information please contact: Rob Miller, x4-6028, rcm at mit.edu

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