Dear Victor,
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 https://crowdconf.com/papers.html), and please forward widely!
Thank you for your help.
Best,
Aaron Shaw
Program Committee Chair
650 269-9496
papers@crowdconf.com
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: Vice President, Amazon Mechanical Turk
Tim Ferriss : Author, The 4-Hour Work Week
David Alan Grier: Author, When Computers Were Human
Barney Pell: Partner, Search Strategist, and Evangelist, Microsoft
Maynard Webb : CEO, LiveOps
Jonathan Zittrain : Professor of Law and Computer Science, Harvard
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
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.
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Unpublished, 10 pages max., ACM format, include an abstract of 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@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 : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Niki Kittur : Carnegie Mellon University
Aaron Koblin : Google
Cameron Marlow : Facebook
Devi Parikh : Toyota Technical Institute
David Pennock : Yahoo! Research
Rion Snow : Twitter
Clay Shirky : New York University
Barney Pell : Microsoft
Greg Little : Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(See the full program committee at https://crowdconf.com/papers.html.)
