The polymath project: Lessons from a successful online collaboration in mathematics

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1865-1874

  Cranshaw, Justin ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale collaboration; Online collaborative mathematics; Online collaborative science; Online communities

Indexed keywords

DESIGN SUGGESTIONS; LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATION; ON-LINE COLLABORATIONS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE COLLABORATIVE MATHEMATIC; ONLINE COLLABORATIVE SCIENCE; SCALED-UP;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79958118685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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