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Reflections from the Communications Network Conference: Wisdom of Crowds – Succeeding in Practice?

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Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too!