[Noisebridge-discuss] CrowdConf Call for Papers

Fri Aug 13 02:04:19 UTC 2010

Dear Friend,

Were you crowdsourcing before it was cool? We want to hear about your
projects. Submit crowdsourcing demonstrations or papers to "CrowdConf
2010: The 1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work."

Read on for details (or visit
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/d150365399
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/8bcdc5729d]
), and please forward widely!

Thank you for your help.

Best,

Aaron Shaw

Program Committee Chair

650 269-9496

papers at crowdconf.com

[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/39ae0e2008]

Call for Papers, Demos, and Posters   

CrowdConf 2010:

1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work

CrowdConf will bring together researchers, technologists, outsourcing
entrepreneurs, legal scholars, and artists for the first time to
discuss how crowdsourcing is transforming human computation and the
future of work. 

Confirmed Speakers

Sharon Chirella
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/36e623cefd]
: Vice President, Amazon Mechanical Turk
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/8595d9ae7c]

Tim Ferriss
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/d8c2ed599f]

: Author, 
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/495e0f6f35]
The 4-Hour Work Week

David Alan Grier
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/0505e482cd]
: Author, 
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/46f13fe49d]
When Computers Were Human

Barney Pell
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/947d48a159]
: Partner, Search Strategist, and Evangelist, Microsoft
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/91a861f8ba]

 Maynard Webb
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/1743d9eed8]

: CEO, LiveOps
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/ab9755a30a]

 Jonathan Zittrain
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/1ac03bded7/id=106]

: Professor of Law and Computer Science, Harvard
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/45569291ac]

We invite you to join us: Submit a paper, demonstrate a new tool, or
simply come prepared for a day of open discussion and debate.

When: October 4, 2010

Where
: San Francisco, at the St. Regis Hotel
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/17ca51a489/propertyID=1511]

We are inviting submissions on all topics regarding crowdsourcing,
including:

•    Past, present, and future of crowdsourcing

•    Quality assurance and metrics

•    Social and economic implications of crowdsourcing

•    Task design/Worker incentives

•    Innovative projects, experiments, and applications

Submission Guidelines

 Deadline
: Sept. 1

Acceptance Decision: Sept. 15

We solicit submissions of papers, presentations, posters, and
demonstrations. All submissions are welcome and will be peer-reviewed
by members of the program committee. Submissions of general interest
will be invited for presentation as talks.

All Submissions Must:

• Be attached to an email that includes author name(s), affiliation,
and contact information.

• Be in PDF format. PDFs should be anoymized
for review

• Follow formatting guidelines used for WWW 2010. Those guidelines are
available here
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/f5fa7867c2]
.

Specs for Papers:

Unpublished, 10 pages max., ACM format, include an abstract of <
250 words. May be selected for publication in the conference
proceedings, and/or for "full" or "spotlight" presentations.

Specs for Posters, Presentations, or Demonstrations:

Must be an abstract of < 500 words. May be previously published or
presented. Are eligible only for "full" or "spotlight" presentations.

Email Submissions to
: papers at crowdconf.com [mailto:paper at crowdconf.com] .  

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee.

Accepted papers will be published. 

Full presentations run 15-20 minutes before the entire conference
audience.

Spotlight presentations run two minutes -- before the entire audience.
Demos and posters are held with a reception. 

Program Committee, Including: 

David Forsyth
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/5ca03057a3]

: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/19b5c68018]

Niki Kittur
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/b584b5f10d]

: Carnegie Mellon University 
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/90e6b9e78c]

Aaron Koblin
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/94f0b875e3]

: Google 
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/bd38bda00e/hl=en]

Cameron Marlow
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/0c55c66acb]

: Facebook
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/74bb07c751]

Devi Parikh
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/9e3b3b0b96]

: Toyota Technical Institute
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/88bb559f13]

 David Pennock
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/aa50abc432]

: Yahoo! Research 
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/f7c4aba193]

Rion Snow
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/701eb4babd]

: Twitter 
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/15c6f75bbe]

Clay Shirky
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/2faa11b9d4]

: New York University
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/ae1b004072]

Barney Pell
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/38d1345884]

: Microsoft 
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/2c5f83277d]

Greg Little
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/caa5765b6b]

: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/cc96414016]

(See the full program committee at
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/9361d9cb76
[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/7f1b967548]

[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/0f928e57aa]

[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/4bb05cac88]

[http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CrowdFlower/7f71034fc7/69c26a6b70/8aad4f8039]

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