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{{Short description|Work distributed across Internet to substitute computers}}
'''Crowd computing''' is a form of distributed work where tasks that are hard for computers to do, are handled by large numbers of humans distributed across the internet.
It is an overarching term encompassing tools that enable idea sharing, non-hierarchical decision making and utilization of "[[cognitive surplus]]" - the ability of the world’s population to collaborate on large, sometimes global projects.<ref>Shirky, Clay. TED Talk June 2010 http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226143403/http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html |date=2014-02-26 }}</ref> Crowd computing combines elements of [[crowdsourcing]], [[automation]], [[distributed computing]], and [[machine learning]].
Prof. Rob Miller of MIT further defines crowd computing as “harnessing the power of people out in the web to do tasks that are hard for individual users or computers to do alone. Like cloud computing, crowd computing offers elastic, on-demand human resources that can drive new applications and new ways of thinking about technology.” <ref>Miller, Rob. Microsoft research talk, June 19, 2013; http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=194501</ref>
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