Crowdsourcing is transforming how we monitor ecological challenges by harnessing the collective efforts of individuals, communities and organizations. This approach generates extensive and diverse ...

It started with an announcement in February that a University of Georgia instructor would start a crowdsourcing project to find out more about working conditions and salaries of adjuncts. Last month, ...

It can take a bit more than a 30-second elevator pitch to understand Kaggle, a new Silicon Valley startup founded by 28-year-old Australian Anthony Goldbloom. After all, it’s not selling anything, ...

Crowdsourcing and data integration algorithms represent an evolving interdisciplinary field that combines human intelligence with computational methods to enhance data processing and decision support.

In an era of tight public budgets, cities need all the help they can get. Crowdsourcing is one strategy that cities can adopt to enlist the help, knowledge and time of their citizens. Applications ...

Data produced by Internet users can help to speed up the detection of earthquakes. An international team of scientists has presented a method to combine in real time data from seismic networks with ...

For years, researchers have been developing a database of images captured at regular distances around several major cities. The images are scored according to different visual characteristics -- how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the digital reinvention of retail and consumer products. Traditional approaches to fighting counterfeiting have often felt ...

A San Francisco company with a D.C.-area presence that pays people to snap photos of products on store shelves and record observations, such as prices in their local markets, is expanding. Premise ...