From: Rob Miller [mailto:[email protected]] 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Csail Event Calendar <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:01 AM Subject: TALK:Thursday 4-7-11 The Lessons of Ancient Crowdsourcers To: [email protected] 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, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Seminars mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/seminars
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