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Leveraging the Wisdom (and Ignorance) of Crowds
The U.S. Defense Department's Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has announced funding to develop and test large-scale structured collaboration methods to improve reasoning.
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The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has announced funding to support large-scale collaboration methods that will improve intelligence analysts' ability to provide accurate and timely analyses of complex issues.
The Crowdsourcing Evidence, Argumentation, Thinking, and Evaluation (CREATE) program awards contracts to projects that combine crowdsourcing with structured techniques.
One CREATE awardee is the Smartly-assembled Wiki-style Argument Marshalling (SWARM) project from the University of Melbourne in Australia. SWARM is a cloud-based platform that uses algorithms to build a statistical summary of a user's reasoning strengths and biases.
Meanwhile, the Trackable Reasoning and Analysis for Collaboration and Evaluation (TRACE) is a Web-based application from Syracuse University that uses crowdsourcing to improve the division of labor and reduce errors.
Finally, George Mason University's Cogen Argumentation System with Crowd Elicitation (Co-Arg) is a software-based cognitive assistant that evaluates hypotheses, evidence, and facts.
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