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The final output of the Knowledge Accelerator system.
Crowdsourcing offers a powerful new paradigm for online work. The Knowledge Accelerator takes as input an arbitrary question (e.g., "how do I grow better tomatoes?") and uses human judgments and computation to output a synthesized digest which finds and vets relevant online sources, extracts relevant information segments, clusters them into appropriate topics, synthesizes knowledge within each topic, and maintains context within and between topics. Here, the final output of the Knowledge Accelerator system.
Credit: Aniket Kittur, Carnegie Mellon University
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