Department of Informatics – DDIS

Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group

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Dagstuhl Seminar “Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society”

29. September 2022 | cristina_sarasua | Comments Off on Dagstuhl Seminar “Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society”

Earlier this month, DDIS members Fynn Bachmann, Miklovana Tuci, Cristina Sarasua and Prof. Abraham Bernstein joined a seminar on “Challenges and Opportunities of Democracy in the Digital Society” at Dagstuhl. The seminar was co-organized by Prof. Bernstein, Anita Gohdes, Steffen Staab, and Beth Noveck. For five days, scholars in computer science, political science, law, and […]

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Crowdsourcing Research at DDIS shown on Swiss TV

15. March 2014 | Abraham Bernstein | Comments Off on Crowdsourcing Research at DDIS shown on Swiss TV

In the context of the Crowdsorucing effort to find the Malaysia Airlines Flight 239 airplane Swiss national television SRF interviewed Professor Abraham Bernstein. The interview was partially aired in the evening news shows 10vor10 and published in an article on their website. 

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Abraham Bernstein interviewed by Swiss Radio DRS 1 on Collective Intelligence

30. October 2012 | Patrick Minder | 12,772 Kommentare

Abraham Bernstein, Professor at IFI, was interviewed on Collective Intelligence by the Swiss Radio DRS radio show Wissen aktuell in their June 5 edition. The show is available as a podcast or as a download (in German!). The Interview touches on DDIS initiatives on how to coordinate large crowds to achieve intelligent outcomes as witnessed […]

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Programming the Global Brain published in the Communications of the ACM

26. April 2012 | Patrick Minder | 4,898 Kommentare

The paper Programming the Global Brain by Abraham Bernstein (UZH), Mark Klein (MIT), and Thomas W. Malone (MIT) was published in the May 2012issue of the Communications of the ACM. The paper discusses the how we can improve our understanding and utilization of the emerging human-computer network constituting the global brain. It argues that the differences between humans and computers require to make advances in […]

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Abraham Bernstein in 20 Minuten Science Pages

13. January 2012 | Patrick Minder | 4,183 Kommentare

The Swiss daily newspaper “20 Minuten” published an article (second page;local copy) today (13.1.2012) about Abraham Bernstein’s work on Crowdsourcing. The article (in German only) discusses how the wisdom of crowds has been leveraged for centuries and that the Internet offers new opportunities to bring Crowdsourcing to new levels. The article was published in the context of […]

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CrowdLang Project highlighted in UZH Magazin

26. December 2011 | Patrick Minder | 8,249 Kommentare

The Current Edition of the UZH Magazin, the University of Zurich’s premier publication,  highlights DDIS project CrowdLang with a two page article (PDF can be found at page 18 of the PDF). The article explains how CrowdLang can be used to accomplish non-trivial tasks with a large number of crowdworkers.  The specific example chosen illustrates CrowdLang’s capabilities by explaining how it […]

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Abraham Bernstein Interviewed on Crowdsourcing for the UZH Homepage

11. November 2011 | Patrick Minder | 9,302 Kommentare

On October 10, 2011, the UZH News protion of the UZH home page featured the article “Schwarmintelligenz: «Crowdsourcing» statt «Outsourcing»” based on an interview with Abraham Bernstein. The article touches on how we can harness human intelligence within computational processes. The work descibed is the result of a coopration between Patrick Minder andAbraham Bernstein at DDIS with Tom Malone and Mark Klein at MIT.

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