Chris Dickman (bio)

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a web service that Amazon originally developed for internal use before making it freely available in 2005. The concept behind it is interesting enough, since it provides a platform that developers can use to generate data for their own web-driven applications, based on the concept of crowdsourcing, in which a large number of people all work to complete a project, not unlike ants or bees.

While Napoleon wasn't thinking of the rough and tumble world of the inventor when he uttered these words, history has failed to acknowledge the seminal work of more than one bright spark. But sometimes the record is set straight.

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