Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk, or MTurk for short, is an online service that Amazon launched in 2005 to complete small tasks known ...

A personality quiz on Amazon's Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in 2014, but the quiz-makers continued to use the platform for at least another year. For one month, I became the ...

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The most well-established of these crowdsourcing platforms is Amazon Mechanical Turk, owned by the online retail giant and run by its Amazon Web Services division. But there are others ...

Getty Images The 18th Century Mechanical Turk fooled chess players into thinking they were competing against a machine Back in 2005, Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos called crowdsourced microwork the ...

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and crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). As a PI and coPI on NSF and NIH awards, he established methods for extracting mental-health related signals from social media and mobile ...

An Amazon diagram about the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments ...

A subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides a Web services system that uses people to perform tasks better handled by humans than computers. Mechanical Turk is a "crowdsourcing" system, in which ...