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Human Workers, Managed by an Algorithm Global workforce: Remote digital workers earned $0.32 each for producing these self-portraits. Stephanie Hamilton is part of something larger than herself. She’s part of a computer program. The 38-year-old resident of Kingston, Jamaica, recently began performing small tasks assigned to her by an algorithm running on a computer in Berkeley, California. That software, developed by a startup called MobileWorks, represents the latest trend in crowdsourcing: organizing foreign workers on a mass scale to do routine jobs that computers aren’t yet good at, like checking spreadsheets or reading receipts.
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Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. By Jeff HowePage 1 of 4 next » 1. The Professional Mobile App Challenge Home Latest App News Run Your Own Contest Blog Eflux Welcome to e-flux projects. In 2001 we initiated a program of special projects for e-flux.com. The early part of this program focused on web publications and art works that explicitly engage audience participation. In 2004 e-flux opened a storefront space in New York's Chinatown where this program evolved into a series of physical public projects, which subsequently travel to contemporary art institutions worldwide. In 2006 e-flux opened a second location in Berlin.
Thomas W. Malone Thomas W. Malone Thomas W. Malone (born 1952) is an American organizational theorist, management consultant, and the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Biography[edit]