This is Volume 1, Issue 1 of the journal "Human Computation", which is an international and interdisciplinary forum for the electronic publication and print archiving of high-quality scholarly articles in all areas of human computation, which concerns the design or analysis of information processing systems in which humans participate as computational elements.About the Author: Pietro Michelucci founded the journal Human Computation to serve as a medium for continuing the cross-disciplinary scientific exchange that began with the Springer Handbook of Human Computation. He directs the Human Computation Institute, a multidisciplinary innovation center that seeks to advance the science of crowd-powered systems. An Indiana University trained cognitive scientist, Dr. Michelucci has pioneered such human computation sub-areas as Organismic Computing and Massively Distributed Problem Solving.