Orchid Project

this Science paper from St Andrews might be interesting for people http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5975/208.short

This looks likely to kickstart the deployment of EVs together with the car share scheme. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/us-autos-france-bluecar-idUSTRE78T2EF20110930

http://www.fastcompany.com/1781570/how-amnesty-international-crowdsources-the-syrian-crisis Sent from gPhone

I saw this story on the BBC News iPhone App and thought you should see it. ** Gamers help anti-Aids drug quest ** Gamers playing an online game have determined the structure of an enzyme that could help design anti-AIDS drugs. ** BBC Daily E-mail ** Choose the news and sport headlines you want – […]

Thought it might be relevant to Orchid: At: http://videolectures.net/ijcai2011_barcelona/

Luis Von Ahn and Edith Law recently released a book on Human Computation. They establish a framework for hcomp that essentially mirrors what they’ve been doing with reCaptcha and gwap (games with a purpose) among others. They gave an overview of what’s in the book at the HCOMP 2011 workshop in their tutorial – slides […]

LAS VEGAS–Researchers at the Black Hat security conference here showed today how they could disrupt and snoop on home automation networks in residences and offices using devices connected to Ethernet networks that communicate via public power lines. Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20088947-245/attacking-home-automation-networks-over-power-lines/#ixzz1VMtRkpUX

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If you believe in such a concept, have a read of some work on TurkControl at http://crowdresearch.org/blog/?p=1451. They use POMDPs to tune their workflows to improve the performance of tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Gopal

I thought this is an interesting 15min TED talk relevant to ORCHID: http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by — algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he […]