{"id":902,"date":"2009-05-07T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T21:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?p=902"},"modified":"2009-05-07T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T21:44:17","slug":"princeton-studying-society-in-a-digital-world-conference-slides-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smrfoundation.org\/2009\/05\/07\/princeton-studying-society-in-a-digital-world-conference-slides-and-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton &#8211; Studying Society In A Digital World &#8211; Conference Slides and photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-2226\" class=\"post\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-566\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smrfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/princeton-citp-header.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-566 lazyload\" title=\"Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/princeton-citp-header-300x34.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy\" width=\"300\" height=\"34\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-566 lazyload\" title=\"Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/princeton-citp-header-300x34.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy\" width=\"300\" height=\"34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smrfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/princeton-citp-header-300x34.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smrfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/princeton-citp-header.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I attended the &#8220;<a title=\"Princeton Studying Society in a Digital World CITP Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/citp.princeton.edu\/front\/conference-studying-society-in-a-digital-world\/\">Studying Society In A Digital World<\/a>&#8221; conference at the <a title=\"Center for Information Technology Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/citp.princeton.edu\/\">Center for Information Technology Policy<\/a> at <a title=\"Princeton University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/\">Princeton University<\/a>.\u00a0 They just posted most of the <a title=\"citp princeton - studying society in a digital world conference slides\" href=\"http:\/\/citp.princeton.edu\/front\/conference-studying-society-in-a-digital-world\/studying-society-in-a-digital-world-conference-slides\/\">conference slides<\/a>.\u00a0 I took some <a title=\"Marc's photos from Princeton &quot;Studying Society in a Digital World&quot; conference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/sets\/72157617178405239\/\" target=\"_blank\">pictures<\/a> and have inserted them next to the link for slides where I had a picture (or a good one!).\u00a0 The conference was very useful and informative: there is a great trend towards sensor driven data sets that, in aggregate, illuminate large complex systems in detailed and surprising ways.<\/p>\n<p>Talks from<a title=\"SenseNetworks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sensenetworks.com\/\"> SenseNetworks<\/a> and MIT made the vision of a continuous &#8220;trail&#8221; document assembled by location and biological sensors from every human on earth seem not so outlandish. Samuel Madden from MIT spoke about opportunistic mobile wifi connectivity in moving vehicles.\u00a0 MIT rebuilt the WiFi stack to enable 13ms associations instead of 13 second associations with an access point.\u00a0 The result is that a car with such a WiFi card can drive along Boston city streets and exchange about 200KB a minute with open unsecured access points along the way.\u00a0 Free bandwidth in the city.\u00a0 What do they do with it?\u00a0 They stream live telemetry of a fleet of cabs.\u00a0 The cabs have accelerometers on them and GPS which is reported in almost real time back to a server.\u00a0 Along with the engine computer&#8217;s data, they collect a ton of data about traffic and road surface quality.\u00a0 They can see changing patterns in the activity levels of the cabs and infer changing activity at businesses.<\/p>\n<p>A major theme of several presentations was crowdsourcing for science, with talks about <a title=\"eBird.org\" href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\">ebird.org<\/a> and <a title=\"GalaxyZoo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galaxyzoo.org\/\">galaxyzoo<\/a> highlighting a distinction between sites that enable a group to collect data (ebird) &#8211; with the associated issues of data validity &#8212; and those sites that enable a group to annotate data (galaxyzoo) that has already been expertly collected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entrytext\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2259\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2259\">Lada<\/a> <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2259\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2259\">Adamic: Social Influence and the Diffusion of User-Generated Content<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2284\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2284\">Chris Barrett: Co-evolution of Sociotechnical Networks and Individual Behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3471059107\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3581\/3471059107_5940886656.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3581\/3471059107_5940886656.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2287\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2287\">Kathleen M. Carley: Information &amp; Belief Diffusion Through Social Networks: Empirically Grounded Simulation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3471060599\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3343\/3471060599_1d85c59c95.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3343\/3471060599_1d85c59c95.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2290\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2290\">Damon Centola: New Theory and Experiments on Diffusion in Social Networks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2293\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2293\">Pablo Chavez: The Current Policy Debates Over Online Information Practices: Implications for Research in the Digital Age<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3471063551\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3351\/3471063551_61a1a0ff53.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3351\/3471063551_61a1a0ff53.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2334\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2334\">Nosh Contractor: Digital Traces: An Exploratorium for Understanding &amp; Enabling Social Networks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3471871336\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3570\/3471871336_46ee801366.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3570\/3471871336_46ee801366.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2296\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2296\">Nathan Eagle, Michael Macy: Scaling of Sociodynamics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Scott Golder at Princeton\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3474640561\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3617\/3474640561_2d6963f4e0.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Golder at Princeton\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3617\/3474640561_2d6963f4e0.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Golder at Princeton\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2256\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2256\">Scott Golder: Temporal Rhythms in Electronic Society: Examples from Facebook and Elsewhere<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2264\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2264\">Eric Horvitz: Through the Lens of a Large Instant-Messaging Network: Planetary-Scale Views on Behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Tony Jebara at Princeton\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3475442746\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3560\/3475442746_cf5f3a6871.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Jebara at Princeton\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3560\/3475442746_cf5f3a6871.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Jebara at Princeton\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2328\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2328\">Tony Jebara: Learning Networks of Places and People from Location Data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2300\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2300\">Steve Kelling: eBird: The Long Tail of Community Engagement in the Scientific Process<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Jon Kleinberg at Princeton\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3475446832\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3417\/3475446832_07f4b81e54.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Kleinberg at Princeton\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3417\/3475446832_07f4b81e54.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Kleinberg at Princeton\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2339\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2339\">Jon Kleinberg: Spatial Signatures of On-line Behavior<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3471064245\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3415\/3471064245_6ab9f25df7.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3415\/3471064245_6ab9f25df7.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2303\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2303\">Robert Kraut: Theory-Based Design of On-Line Worlds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2308\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2308\">W. Russell Neuman: Social Science and Policy Praxis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2267\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2267\">Jukka-Pekka Onnela: Using Cell Phones to Study the Large-Scale Structure of Social Networks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3471873078\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3367\/3471873078_6aa845cac3.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3367\/3471873078_6aa845cac3.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2311\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2311\">Paul Resnick: Understanding Opinion Diversity Preferences Through Field Experiments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3471873644\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3395\/3471873644_90546c5bd7.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3395\/3471873644_90546c5bd7.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2273\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2273\">Matthew Salganik: Community-Generated and Community-Sorted Information<\/a> In his presentation Matt made the remarkable connection between deliberative democracy and the cat comparrison site: Kitten Wars.\u00a0 His talk introduced a model for a kind of Am I Hot or Not for political discussions.\u00a0 His group built a web site that helped the student community at Princeton set its priorities for student government.\u00a0 The work has significant implications fo deliberation tools for organizations and enterprises.\u00a0 Unlike systems that simply encourage users to contribute ideas to a potentially long and never acted upon list, this system forces a comparison task that can be performed in one click but demands implicit contrasts and estimation of value.\u00a0 The use of the almost adictive \u201chot or not\u201d style interface (or more accurately, kittenwars)\u00a0 allows users to decide between, for example, longer hours for the student cafeteria or expanded video rental services, and get presented with their estimate in the context of other&#8217;s choices and the opportunity to choose between two things again.\u00a0 After a population has run through a set of pair-wise contrasts a broader sense of the priorities of the community can be calculated.<\/p>\n<p>In my talk, I focused on the idea that information want not to be free or expensive, rather, information wants to be copied.\u00a0 Like DNA, the goal of any string of bits is to make a duplicate copy of themselves.\u00a0 Several technical realities mean that while information may exist on a spectrum from private to public, it only moves in one direction (public) and almost never back.\u00a0 Once made public on the Internet, even if only for a moment, a photo, document, or other digital object is almost certainly to have been copied, indexed, backed up, or replicated.\u00a0 All efforts to delete a digital object once widely distributed is like trying to take wine out of water.\u00a0 This is because all cryptography become brittle over time, most bits end up exposed after they get distributed, and more events trigger widespread distribution of bits than expected (for example, linking a photo, and a location, to a tweet that gets copied to LinkedIn and Facebook, that then appears in an RSS feed and is copied from there to Friend Feed.\u00a0 As it travels, information looses more of the access controls that initially made it relatively private until it is effectively public.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-913\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smrfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-april-princeton-marc-smith-talk-at-citp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-913 lazyload\" title=\"2009-april-princeton-marc-smith-talk-at-citp\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-april-princeton-marc-smith-talk-at-citp-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Smith talks about information at Princeton CITP &quot;Studying Society in a Digital World&quot; Conference\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-913 lazyload\" title=\"2009-april-princeton-marc-smith-talk-at-citp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-april-princeton-marc-smith-talk-at-citp-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Smith talks about information at Princeton CITP &quot;Studying Society in a Digital World&quot; Conference\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smrfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-april-princeton-marc-smith-talk-at-citp-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.smrfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009-april-princeton-marc-smith-talk-at-citp.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marc Smith talks about information at Princeton CITP &quot;Studying Society in a Digital World&quot; Conference - Photo Credit: Scott Golder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2316\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2316\">Marc Smith: Autobiography, Mobile Social Life-Lagging and the Transition from Ephemeral to Archival Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2279\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2279\">Joshua Tauberer: Watching the Watchers: Government Oversight with Civic Hacking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" rel=\"flickr-mgr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marc_smith\/3471877210\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3317\/3471877210_3469c48784.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-medium lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3317\/3471877210_3469c48784.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton: Studying Society in a Digital World\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2270\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2270\">Marshall Van Alstyne: Information, Social Networks and Productivity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, no picture for Luis Van Ahn&#8217;s talk: however, this presentation was a fascinating review of the capcha and re-capcha services and the new direction of providing translation services as language learning games.\u00a0 Luis Van Ahn invented capcha, felt bad about the cumulative human time wasted by filling out those squiggle word puzzels to get on a web site, and decided to harness capchas to a useful task: text recognition for books.\u00a0 To translate words from bad scans of books that the OCR software fails to recognize correctly, the garbled data is presented to humans, who, collectively, have translated millions of previously unintelligible words.\u00a0 Now, his new project is to expand the small user population of bi or multilingual speakers who can translate between languages.\u00a0 The approach applies the &#8220;Mechanical Turk&#8221; &#8220;human intelligence task&#8221; concept to language translation.\u00a0 His language translation service presents foreign language sentences to users with all dictionary words from a simple translation listed below.\u00a0 Users click on best word selection beneath each foreign word.\u00a0 The surprising results: pretty good translations AND users start learning a foreign language!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2319\" href=\"http:\/\/www.connectedaction.net\/?attachment_id=2319\">Luis von Ahn: Human Computation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the &#8220;Studying Society In A Digital World&#8221; conference at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.\u00a0 They just posted most of the conference slides.\u00a0 I took some pictures and have inserted them next to the 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