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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>

Crowd computing offers a harmonious amalgamation of both cloud computing and crowdsourcing. It combines human intelligence (the crowd) with artificial intelligence (the cloud) in order to produce quality results at unprecedented speed. Scientists and historians are already utilizing this process to complete time-consuming research, and many businesses are beginning to realize its potential for cutting costs and increasing productivity. Crowd computing very well may be on its way to changing the way humans live and operate in our society by using [http://www.crowdcomputing.com/crowd-computing-where-humans-and-machines-work-together artificial intelligence in combination with the human mind.]<ref>Crowdcomputing.com; http://www.crowdcomputing.com/crowd-computing-where-humans-and-machines-work-together</ref>

Srini Devadas, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, asserts that “crowd computing will complement the cloud as one of two burgeoning infrastructures that will enable the world to become more ‘collectively intelligent’.”<ref>Computer News Middle East, “Crowd-Computing-the future?”, January 19, 2012. http://www.cnmeonline.com/insight/crowd-computing-the-future/ </ref>

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==Crowdcomputing tools and platforms==

Businesses and society in general increasingly rely on the combined intelligence, knowledge, bandwidth and life experiences of the ‘crowd to improve processes, make decisions, identify solutions to complex problems and monitor changes in consumer taste.<ref name="crowdcomputing">Crowdcomputinghttp://www.crowdcomputing.com</ref> Companies like [[Amazon.com|Amazon]] and [[Google]] saw early-on the potential for crowd computing. In 1995, Amazon created [[Amazon_Mechanical_Turk|Mechanical Turk]] to deal with its internal problem of sorting its massive inventory. The platform organizes people from around the globe to ‘work efficiently as a giant machine.”<ref>Popper, Ben (17 April 2012). "Crowd computing taps artificial intelligence to revolutionize the power of our collective brains". Venture Beat. Retrieved 8 June 2012.</ref> Google uses a [[captcha]] to help digitize books. Major sites like [[Facebook]] and [[Twitter]] rely on the crowd to power the translation that spreads their service around the globe. <ref>Popper, Ben (17 April 2012). "Crowd computing taps artificial intelligence to revolutionize the power of our collective brains". Venture Beat. Retrieved 8 June 2012.</ref>

==Enterprise Crowd Computing==

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The author on innovation [[Braden Kelley]] deems this shift a ‘revolution’ and credits crowdcomputing with the redesign of work that is now possible thanks to new technology tools and business architecture thinking that will allow man and machine to work more efficiently together than ever before. <ref>Kelley, Braden. (3 February 2013). “The Crowd Computing Revolution” http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2013/02/03/the-crowd-computing-revolution-part-one/#sthash.c2b1p5Md.dpuf</ref>

[http://www.crowdcomputingsystems.com CrowdComputing Systems, Inc.]<ref name="crowdcomputing"></ref> first brought crowd computing to the enterprise level in 2012 through a software platform with technology that was originally designed at MIT for fraud-detection work; it was later deemed to have more relevance for enterprise crowdsourcing and machine intelligence. <ref>Pelz-Sharp, Alan. (24 Jul, 2013). “Crowd Computing Systems brings machine learning to enterprise crowdsourcing”. 451 Research</ref>

The company’s platform automates tasks and combines human labor sourced from companies such as [[Elance]],<ref>[https://www.elance.com/p/lpg/freelancing/?rid=1TN5N&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=C-Brand-Exact&utm_term=elance&ad=29682394458&bmt=e&adpos=1t1&gclid=CKzuq7SvwbkCFVNo7AodzTsAWw#testimonials Elance],</ref> [https://www.odesk.com [Upwork|Odesk]] and [https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome [Amazon Mechanical Turk]] to create, manage and enhance an on-demand content and data workforce. <ref>Crosman, Penny. (4 Sept, 2013). “A New Way to Outsource Bank Jobs: To the Cloud”. Banking Technology News. Retrieved 5 September 2013. http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_171/a-new-way-to-outsource-bank-jobs-to-the-cloud-1061769-1.html</ref>

==History==