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Professor: Haym Hirsh (352 Gates Hall, haym.hirsh at cornell dot edu)
Office Hours: Mon 11:15am - 12:15pm

Lecture: Gates G01 (Tue/Thu 8:40am - 9:55pm)

Blog: Crowdsourcing and Human Computation

Teaching Assistant:

  • - Ozan Irsoy (oi32 at cornell dot edu)
  • - Moontae Lee (ml2255 at cornell dot edu)
  • - Jon Park (jsp249 at cornell dot edu)

CS/INFO 5306 Schedule
# Date Topic Readings Assignments
1 Jan 28 Course Overview 1 -  
2 Feb 2 Course Overview 2 -  
3 Feb 4 How Many Minds (Mis)Produce Knowledge Infotopia, Introduction  
4 Feb 9 Human Computation Introduction Human Computation, Chapter 1 #1: Experience Crowd Work
Due Feb 18
(revised - see Mar 22)
5 Feb 11 Human Computation Algorithms Human Computation, Chapter 2  
February Break
6 Feb 18 Aggregating Outputs Human Computation, Chapter 3  
7 Feb 23 The (Occasional) Power of Numbers:
What We Know from Cognitive and Social Psychology
Infotopia, Chapter 1  
8 Feb 25 The (Occasional) Power of Numbers:
Condorcet Jury Theorem
Infotopia, Chapter 1  
9 Mar 1 The Surprising Failures of Deliberating Groups, Four Big Problems Infotopia, Chapters 2 and 3 #2: Participate in Wikipedia
Due Mar 10
10 Mar 3 Wikipedia Infotopia, Chapter 5  
11 Mar 8 Money, Prices, and Prediction Markets Infotopia, Chapter 4  
12 Mar 10 Amazon Mechanical Turk Live Demo
Course Projects Overview
- Course Project
Assignment #2 due today
13 Mar 15 Recommendations for Deliberation Infotopia, Chapter 6  
14 Mar 17 Examples of Micro-Labor Market Applications -  
- Mar 18 - - Course Project Milestone 1: Initial Project Ideas
15 Mar 22 Crowdsourcing Via Contests - #1 Revised: Experience Crowd Work
Due Apr 12
Course Project Milestone 2: Comment on Classmates' Ideas
16 Mar 24 Project Team Formation - Course Project Milestone 3: Revise Project Ideas
Spring Break
17 Apr 5 Games with a Purpose Human Computation, Section 6.2.1  
18 Apr 7 Asking the Right Questions Human Computation, Chapter 6 Course Project Milestone 4: Project Proposals Due Today
19 Apr 12 The Wisdom of Webpage Link Structure Assignment #1 Revised Due Today
20 Apr 14 The Wisdom of Webpage Link Structure
The Wisdom of Search Queries
   
21 Apr 19 The Wisdom in Social Media    
22 Apr 21 Collaborative Filtering   Course Project Milestone 5: Status Report 1
23 Apr 26 Amazon Mechanical Turk: Worker Experience
Guest lecture: Brian McInnis
"Mammon and the Archer" by O. Henry  
24 Apr 28 The Dark Side of Crowdsourcing and Human Computation    
25 May 3 The Dark Side of Crowdsourcing and Human Computation    
26 May 5 Collective Intelligence in Animals Bruce Schneier's Afterword to Cory Doctorow's Little Brother Course Project Milestone 6: Status Report 2
27 May 10 Looking Ahead   Amazon Mechanical Turk Reimbursement Form
- May 17     Course Project Milestones 7: Project Report Due Today
Course Project Milestones 8: Individual Report Due Today
Project Presentation