Collective Intelligence 2012: Proceedings
Thomas W. Malone, Luis von Ahn

TL;DR
The proceedings of the 2012 Collective Intelligence conference showcase diverse research on how groups of humans and computers collaborate via the Internet to perform intelligent tasks, highlighting emerging interdisciplinary insights.
Contribution
This volume compiles recent advances and discussions on Internet-enabled collective intelligence, emphasizing its interdisciplinary nature and potential.
Findings
Web-based collective intelligence enables large-scale knowledge creation.
Internet platforms like Wikipedia demonstrate volunteer-driven intelligent collaboration.
Collective intelligence is an emerging interdisciplinary research field.
Abstract
This volume holds the proceedings of the Collective Intelligence 2012 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It contains the full papers, poster papers, and plenary abstracts. Collective intelligence has existed at least as long as humans have, because families, armies, countries, and companies have all - at least sometimes - acted collectively in ways that seem intelligent. But in the last decade or so a new kind of collective intelligence has emerged: groups of people and computers, connected by the Internet, collectively doing intelligent things. For example, Google technology harvests knowledge generated by millions of people creating and linking web pages and then uses this knowledge to answer queries in ways that often seem amazingly intelligent. Or in Wikipedia, thousands of people around the world have collectively created a very large and high quality intellectual product…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCompetitive and Knowledge Intelligence · Big Data and Business Intelligence
