CIRSS Seminar: Atsuyuki Morishima

Scholarly visitor Atsuyuki Morishima, professor in the Graduate School of Library, Information, and Media Studies at the University of Tsukuba, will give the talk, "JST CREST CyborgCrowd Project: Towards Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence." 

JST CREST CyborgCrowd project aims at developing technologies for integrating crowdsourcing and AI. The challenge is to find better workflows to solve given problems for given computing resources including humans and AIs. We have been conducting the research focusing on issues  represented by three terms:  "Immediate", "United", and  "Optimized." We take a middleware-centered action research framework in which we apply results of our theoretical research to real-world applications while using the feedback from the application research to enhance the theoretical one. This talk gives an overview and  current status of the project. 

Morishima is a professor of University of Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests include data-centric human-machine computations, data integration, and digital libraries. He have been involved in committees of DB, DL, and crowdsourcing communities. Currently, he is an associate editor of the VLDB Journal, and a steering committee member of ICADL. He is the leader of JST CREST CyborgCrowd Project and the representative of the Crowd4U initiative. Since the launch of Crowd4U in 2011, it has been used for eight years, under the mottos like "to make the world a better place" and "Crowdsourcing for Good." For example, his team supplied microtasks to the project for constructing the digital archive of Futaba-town, Fukushima Prefecture, which was seriously damaged in the 2011 Japan Disaster. Recently, they have been conducting natural disaster drills with local governments, where crowdsourcing technologies are used to achieve citizen-in-the-loop understanding of situations in natural disasters.