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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>… and not even know it!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><a
href="http://athenpro.blogspot.com/2007/05/you-might-be-digitzing-books-on-web.html">http://athenpro.blogspot.com/2007/05/you-might-be-digitzing-books-on-web.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Again with the Carnegie
Mellon where a scientist is looking to create a new type of security check that
will assist in a project meant to digitize and make searchable text from books
and printed materials. Above and beyond that, the offering would probably be
more secure than most current systems. You know those <a
href="http://athenpro.blogspot.com/2006/06/progress-in-captcha-department-afbs.html">CAPTCHA's</a>
we all dislike so very much --- thanks to them (and some behind the scenes
stealth) you may be helping to <a
href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/15522">digitize books on
the web</a>.<br>
<br>
According to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/">NetWorkWorld</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><em><i><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Instead of
requiring visitors to retype random numbers and letters, they would retype text
that otherwise is difficult for the optical character recognition systems to
decipher when being used to digitize books and other printed materials. The
translated text would then go toward the digitization of the printed material
on behalf of the Internet Archive project."</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;
margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This reminds me of a <a
href="http://video.google.com/googleplex.html#tech">Google Tech Talks</a>
lecture by Luis von Ahn (Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon) on the
topic of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_computation">Human
Based Computation</a>. This talk (<a
href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143&q=game+to+name+pictures+on+web">available
via Google Video</a>):<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing
power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches
to solving such problems focus on improving software. [von Ahn] advocate[s] a
novel approach: constructively channel human brainpower using computer games.
For example, the </span></font></i></em><a href="http://www.espgame.org/"><em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">ESP Game</font></i></em></a><em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">, described in this talk, is an enjoyable online game --
many people play over 40 hours a week -- and when people play, they help label
images on the Web with descriptive keywords. These keywords can be used to
significantly improve the accuracy of image search. People play the game not
because they want to help, but because they enjoy it. I describe other examples
of "games with a purpose": </font></i></em><a
href="http://www.peekaboom.org/"><em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Peekaboom</font></i></em></a><em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">, which helps determine the location of objects in
images, and Verbosity, which collects common-sense knowledge.</font></i></em><br>
--<br>
Posted By D. Berkowitz to <a
href="http://athenpro.blogspot.com/2007/05/you-might-be-digitzing-books-on-web.html">Access
Technologists Higher Education Network </a>at 5/24/2007 08:38:00 PM <font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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