From: Michael Toomim <toomim@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:17 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] The Crowdsourcing Club
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
Hey Undergrads!
We’re starting a new club on the burgeoning topic of crowdsourcing, mechanical turk, video games with purpose, and generally “doing cool things with people on the internet.”
Interested? Did you know that this is the future? The coolest thing happening in tech? We’re creating the borg hive mind.
This is going to be like the Homebrew Computer Club that invented personal computing in the 70s. We’ve got a critical mass of startups, researchers, and students in Seattle doing crowdsourcing, and together we’ll discuss and invent the future every month or so.
– Meet and connect students, startups, and researchers
– Share and identify big problems and solutions
– Show off cool tricks we’ve done with people on the Internet
To come, please RSVP by tomorrow (tuesday) at 2pm. Just send me an email. We want any student interested in “doing cool things with people on the internet.” We’ll meet at 6pm in the AI lab on the sixth floor. We are sponsored by WhitePages.com, which means there will be free Jimmy Johns and drinks for you.
My name is Michael Toomim and I’m a grad student with facial hair.
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