Module 3

• Human-based computation, human-assisted computation, ubiquitous human computing or distributed thinking is a computer science technique in which a machine performs its function by outsourcing certain steps to humans, usually as Microwork
• Weiser is the chief technologist writer of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Labs —home of pioneering work in early graphical user interfaces.
• Communities built on open platforms might provide programming libraries known as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) capable of extracting data.
• The term CAPTCHA was developed by Luis von Ahn
• The “Internet of Things” has become a familiar means of describing a landscape where data collection, sensing, and computing are all around us, and often invisibly hidden in unobtrusive devices.