Listen to computer scientists from around the world talk about how their projects are changing the way we communicate, learn, get around and live our lives.
John Riedel
Computer scientist John Riedl, University of Minnesota, talks about the challenge of getting people to contribute to wikis and other community-maintained artifacts of lasting value.
"All of a sudden anybody in the world can go and add a tag to something. Anybody in the world can go and modify a Wikipedia article. Anybody in the world can post a blog entry that helps someone else find an article on the Web that they might find interesting. It's a very exciting time to be alive and, I think, a very exciting time to be an information researcher."
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Last updated November 2, 2007