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AAAI Fall Symposium: Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI—18 November 2016 Humans, Machines, and the Future of Citizen Science Kevin Crowston Syracuse University School of Information Studies [email protected] http://crowston.syr.edu/ Partially supported by NSF Grants 09-68470, 12-11071 & 15-47880. Gravity Spy is the work of the Gravity Spy Team, http://gravity-spy.org/

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AAAI Fall Symposium: Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI—18 November 2016

Humans, Machines, and the Future of Citizen Science

Kevin CrowstonSyracuse University School of Information [email protected]://crowston.syr.edu/

Partially supported by NSF Grants 09-68470, 12-11071 & 15-47880.Gravity Spy is the work of the Gravity Spy Team, http://gravity-spy.org/

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Citizen science of the future

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n Need to understand organizational and social impacts

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