Posts Categorized: Events

Announcing the TREC 2011 Crowdsourcing Track, co-sponsored by CrowdFlower

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We’re proud to announce CrowdFlower’s participation in one of the most prestigious academic conferences worldwide. The 20th Annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2011), organized by the National Institute of Standards (NIST), will take place Nov 15-18, 2011, at NIST’s campus in Gaithersburg, MD. TREC 2011 will feature a new Crowdsourcing Track that will investigate: How… Read more »

Highlights from NYC Meetup

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We’re back from our NYC Meetup. If you missed the event, you can see the presentations here. Here are a few kind words from one of the presenters, John Horton, Staff Economist at oDesk: “I really like how crowdsourcing/remote work is simultaneously a hot topic in both academia and industry/entrepreneurship. It’s fairly rare to have… Read more »

CrowdFlower and Citizen Effect: So Much Madness

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After hearing that our friends at Citizen Effect were sponsoring Brackets with Benefits, a cool new March Madness pool where the proceeds from all the gambling go to one of the many awesome community development projects they support, we thought it would be fun to get involved. Considering how most people** watched their brackets go… Read more »