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Amy Robinson is a crowdsourcer. She is the Creative Director of EyeWire, a game to map the brain from Sebastian Seungâs Computational Neuroscience lab at MIT. EyeWire is a community of over 100,000 gamers from 135 countries who together are helping us decipher the mysteries of information processing in the brain.
Amy founded and curates the TEDx Music Project, a collection of the best live music from TEDx events around the world. Amy also works with MIT Media Lab building crowd-sourced tools for computer vision.
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Abstract |
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Crowdsourcing the next scientific revolution |
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Scientific progress has never been faster. Instant connectivity, new tools and rapid dataset generation are revolutionizing our knowledge of the world we live in. Yet researchers increasingly find themselves drowning in a deluge of data, unable to analyze their findings and often crippled by a shortage of computer science tools. One solution can be found in the cloud through citizen scientists, a growing community of people who work with scientists through online applications. Seung Lab at MIT is leading the charge with EyeWire, a game to map the brain. This presentation will include case studies of several crowd-sourced science successes as well as offer insight for researchers with an interest in engaging the crowd. |
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