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

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 ...

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 ...

In early February, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced a multi-year effort to develop and test collaboration methods to improve reasoning. The Crowdsourcing Evidence ...

As companies struggle to adopt artificial intelligence technology and offer more personalized, intuitive services to customers, demand for data scientists continues to soar. When LinkedIn tried to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1906, English statistician Francis Galton happened to visit a livestock fair where fairgoers were invited to guess the dressed weight of an ox scheduled for imminent slaughter. Some 800 attendees ...

EARLIER this month, researchers and advocates from 40 countries formed a global alliance to enable the secure sharing of genomic and clinical data, aiming to end the era in which only the people who ...

It might sound like a riddle: What do you get when you combine one online contest, two patients, five dogs and 654 data scientists? The answer: Hope for patients with epilepsy that their seizures can ...