Edith Law helping lead the way in Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing at CRCS

As featured in Harvard Magazine ("Popular Science", Jan-Feb 2014), CRCS fellow Edith Law is helping lead the way in CRCS's efforts to develop crowdsourcing technologies that could enable large-scale citizen science initiatives. In particular, Edith is "developing an online citizen-science platform called Curio (www.crowdcurio.com) to crowdsource research tasks. (She plans to launch it this spring.)"

Edith "suggests that citizen science can educate amateurs about the realities of scientific research, warts and all, by exposing them to data and data processing. 'It can teach people what scientists do,' she says, 'and how they analyze problems.'"

Read the full article "Popular Science" in the January-February 2014 issue of Harvard Magazine.