Starmind article in Mensa UK High-IQ society Magazine, March issue 2010

February 28th, 2010

Mensa UK High IQ society, Starmind articleDon Berry, Starmind master fellow, on how he discovered a rapidly-growing website community which pays its users for intelligent answers. The article was published in the Mensa UK High-IQ society magazin March issue, 2010.

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Installation of Starmind Harvard-MIT Group in Cambridge, MA, USA

February 28th, 2010

Starmind Harvard MIT group in Boston

Starmind announces the installation of the first Starmind team in Boston, USA. Alex Mulyar, one of the leading Starmind users in the US, heads the Starmind Harvard/MIT group with focus to tap local networks and socities at Harvard[1] and MIT[2] (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

MIT belongs to the leading universities in the field of engineering, while Harvard is the first and most renowned university in the US, ranking number one in recent university reviews[3].

Supported by Swissnex[4] Boston, an organisation of the Swiss Confederation, first contacts could be established and meetings be scheduled. The mission of Swissnex is to unite overseas universities and research institutions with leading Swiss companies and universities.

It is the goal of Starmind USA to expand networks to other universities and research institutions so as to bring together talents and outstanding individuals eager to share know-how and solve challenging problems.

Pascal Kaufmann states upon signing the contracts: “I am positive that Alex and his team at Harvard and MIT will be able to open up effective networks and to identify talents and brilliant minds for Starmind. The affiliation of other universities and institutes is a priority of the Starmind group in the US. Starmind unites talents around the globe and converts know-how directly into solutions, certificates and awards.”


[1] Harvard University

[2] Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[3] University ranking USA

[4] www. swissnexboston.org

Starmind implements novel type of Artificial Neural Network

February 4th, 2010

Starmind Talent Network Cluster

Zurich, February 4, 2010. Today, Starmind is officially announcing the new Starmind Release 2.1. For the first time, details on the internal architecture are published:

The novelty of the Starmind portal 2.1 is based on a unique combination of efficient database algorithms and intelligent neural network architecture, which have been developed at the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Intelligent artificial neural network to identify know-how hotspots

Starmind talent Network Details

Marc Vontobel, Starmind Head IT: “Starmind users are virtually connected to subject areas (tags) on the basis of the questions they have solved. As a result, the generated connections between users and subject areas are strengthened or weakened according to the success rate of a question solver. For instance, a user who has repeatedly and successfully solved a question concerning ‘Web 2.0 technology’ has a stronger connection to the subject ‘Web 2.0’ than a user whose solution related to the subject area has been rated negatively by the question poser. In addition, the mechanism of forgetting occurs with every learning process, analogous to the natural process. This process ensures that users who are more active in a subject area are favoured over less active users. When a new question is posed, a very limited number of qualified question solvers are informed, which leads to an efficient solution of the question with minimal communication effort.”

Global competition for outstanding solutions

The larger the Community, the higher the level of selection and therefore, the higher the qualification of the located individual is. The intelligent neural network enables an efficient mapping of experts worldwide, which allows forming groups of experts. The network memorises the created structures (“Know-How Hotspots”) while the allocation of know-how and questions is continuously optimised. As a part of the Starmind Release 2.1, the neural network forms another basis for the systematic expansion of the Starmind Community.

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Innovative Viral Marketing Campaign for Haiti

January 31st, 2010

This week several newspaper reported about an innovative viral marketing campaign organized by Swiss online communities and companies to generate money to support Haiti.

View here the article about Starmind “Schweizer Internet-Unternehmen sammeln für Haiti” featured on Nachrichten.ch.

View here the article about Starmind “Schweizer Internet-Unternehmen sammeln für Haiti” featured on news.ch.

View here the article about Starmind “Schweizer Internet-Unternehmen sammeln für Haiti” featured on IFJ.


View here the article about Starmind “Schweizer Internet-Unternehmen sammeln für Haiti” featured on inno-swiss.com.

View here the article about Starmind “Schweizer Internet-Unternehmen sammeln für Haiti” featured on venturelab.ch.


Starmind.com is among the initiators of this campaign: You can not only win Starmind vouchers, but also cool concert tickets, Geschenkidee.ch vouchers, wellness vouchers and even IT gadgets.

By donating an amount of e.g. CHF 5.- you do something good for the people in Haiti and at the same time, you receive 5 tombola lots,  with which you can win prices worth several thousand CHF!

Donate here directly and receive a tombola lot for every CHF 1.- you contribute: DONATE.

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Starmind featured on Zurich University Homepage, myScience and newspaper 20min

January 24th, 2010

The Zurich University News Portal featured Starmind on Monday, 18 January 2010. Please find here the full article: Wissens-Sterne pflücken

Credits go to Marita Fuchs for doing a great job.


The same day, the article was also featured on myScience: Internetportal “Starmind” Wissens-Sterne pflücken

On Wednesday, 20 January 2010, the Swiss daily free newspaper “20min” released an article on Starmind. Read it here: Know-How per Mausklick

Credits go to Andreas Rohrer who did a great job.