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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 2: Focus Session: Swarm Intelligence

SOE 2.2: Invited Talk

Monday, March 14, 2011, 10:45–11:15, GÖR 226

Mobilizing society with a red balloon — •Riley Crane — MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA

Last December DARPA -- the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- unveiled ten red balloons at undisclosed locations around the United States and offered a $40,000 reward to anyone in the world who could find them. Our team found all ten in 8 hours and 52 minutes with a crowdsourcing solution that allowed us to effectively build and query a human sensor network. This talk will discuss problems such as these that require coordination beyond the typical scope of crowdsourcing.