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		<title><![CDATA[How our brain sees natural scenes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How our brain sees natural scenesFascinating Topic Bravo! Roland.Professor Luis von Ahn is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. ..., Ben Maurer, Colin McMillen, David Abraham and Manuel Blum. These dudes need to get in touch with Dr. Michael Barnsley>Michael.Barnsley@maths.anu.edu.au<Hmmmm?Aristid Lindenmeyer (November 17, 1925 – October 30,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:31:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Games to make computers smarter]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=926]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who gave us Peekaboom and worked on the "distorted letter" tests called CAPTCHAs, is back with several new games. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he just launched a new site where you can play to so-called GWAPS -- short for "games with a purpose."...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 09:22:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Two Player Game to Combat Web Spam]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1021745]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a novel approach to combating web spam. In the spirit of Luis von Ahn's games with a purpose, they propose using a two player game to identify spam pages within search results. Their game asks users to classify a page as either highly relevant to a query...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New tool screens spam, digitizes books]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New tool screens spam, digitizes booksTHE BEST PART -- IT'S FREE !!!I just emailed Prof. von Ahn to ask whether there is a program for volunteers to just be shown the scanned text for identification instead of having to type two words each time.It's nice to see people coming up...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 12:16:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A fun game for a boring task]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=313]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Image labeling seems like a pretty boring task to most people, but Luis von Ahn made it fun more than two years ago with his "ESP Game".  This addictive multi-player game embraces the power of wasted human cycles to label images.Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch discovered a TechTalk...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 22:25:32 -0700</pubDate>
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