We’re so quiet that few people know about us, but Distributed Proofreaders is an all-volunteer effort that has prepared nearly 13,000 free ebooks over the last seven years. We’re getting better at it, too.Crooked Timber » » Money Ruins Everything
You can find our books at Project Gutenberg, but also at manybooks.net, mobipocket, and other ebook sites. Many of them don’t credit us in the slightest. Sometimes that makes me feel sad; sometimes I just feel like a secret mistress of the universe.
I survive, barely, on what I make copyediting and proofreading books for pay. But my heart and soul are in the books I do for free.
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This is also done by distributed CAPTCHA, developed by Luis von Ahn at Cargenie Mellon.
CAPTCHA workarounds: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7067962.stm
Also doing, Games with a Purpose, gwap.com.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/1949217&from=rss
Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=1
Protein Folding aided by humans:
http://fold.it
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