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National Science Foundation: Science Behind the News: Crowdsourcing

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A computer scientist explains how crowdsourcing works and how it is being used to tackle massive projects, such as digitizing books, translating websites, and determining the structure of a protein. Crowdsourcing is favoured over computers for many tasks as humans can distinguish text and symbols where computers have difficulty, for example, where letters are written in an old English font. [4:56]

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