IEI is continuing to develop its relationship with the UT iSchool, whose work is important to the future of the information science community. Kevin’s examples of how IEI has integrated crowdsourcing into our client solutions spurred an interesting discussion with the students. Kevin touched on all these issues, focusing on our experience with IEI partner Amazon Mechanical Turk, past crowdsourcing successes, and, of course, potential pitfalls. I don’t know what else to say about this sorry excuse of portal from the Texas Secretary of State but if you try to learn anything useful here you’ll be sadly uninformed. We talked about the ethics of crowdsourcing, its cost effectiveness, crowdsourcing scams, and current academic research on crowdsourcing. Early voting opens here for the primaries and it’s always a good time to check on the information made available for the electorate. Information Evolution has included crowdsourcing in its array of solutions for a few years now, and we enjoyed discussing our first-hand experience with the students. Kevin Dodds is a Senior Project Manager at IEI, and is our resident crowdsourcing guru. He specializes in crowdsourcing, natural language processing, and information retrieval. Lease is an Assistant Professor at the UT iSchool and the Director of the UT Austin Information Retrieval Crowdsourcing Lab. Matt Lease‘s class, Human Computation & Crowdsourcing, which focuses on the computational aspects of how people use mathematical equations, statistics, and computer algorithms, exploring issues of human factors design.
Our own Kevin Dodds was a guest speaker in Dr.
Essential personnel only will report to campus. As an alumna of the UT iSchool, I was excited and proud to be back on campus with the IEI team. UT Austin facilities in Austin will remain closed and classes are canceled February 1, 2023. Last week Information Evolution paid a visit to the University of Texas at Austin School of Information (UT iSchool).
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