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Discuss “Google licenses professor's technology”

On September 1, Google introduced the Google Image Labeler, an online game that invites players to label untagged images in the Google Image Search database. Carnegie Mellon students may find the game strangely familiar; that’s because it was developed by Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor in the computer science department and the creator of the ESP Game, which he licensed to Google earlier this year.

Von Ahn specializes in “human computation,” which he describes as “the channeling of humans to train and develop computers.” For his doctoral and post-doctoral work at Carnegie Mellon, von Ahn and his colleagues developed the ESP Game to help computers “learn” to identify images and words.

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