MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

How can people and computers be connected so that — collectively — they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?

While people have talked about collective intelligence for decades, new communication technologies—especially the Internet—now allow huge numbers of people all over the planet to work together in new ways. The recent successes of systems like Google and Wikipedia suggest that the time is now ripe for many more such systems, and the goal of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is to understand how to take advantage of these possibilities.

Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?'

The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing the way people work together.

CI 2012 - Collective Intelligence 2012 - Please join us April 18-20
CCI Researchers lead workshops and present papers at 2012 CSCW
--Mark Klein co-organizer: Workshop on Collective Intelligence as Community Discourse and Action
--Josh Introne co-organizer: Workshop on Design, Influence, and Social Technologies: Techniques, Impacts and Ethics
--Yiftach Nagar presents: The Structuring of an Online Community as a Collective–Sensemaking Process
--Katrina Panovich, Rob Miller, David Karger present: Tie Strength in Question & Answer on Social Network Sites
--Paul André, Michael Bernstein, Kurt Luther present: Who Gives a Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value

-->Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, Thomas W. Malone, Programming the Global Brain, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 55 No. 5, Pages 41-43 , Apr 2012
-->Thomas W. Malone, Collective Intelligence 2012, MIT Sloan Experts blog, Apr 2012
-->Yiftach Nagar, How will the practice of science change in your lifetime?, Science, NextGen VOICES, January 6, 2012
-->Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt joins CCI in celebrating its anniversary, November 15, 2011
-->Thomas W. Malone, Climate CoLab, Collective intelligence to address climate change - finalists chosen in world-wide contest, MIT Sloan Experts Blog, Nov 1, 2011
-->Thomas W. Malone quoted in Scientific American blog, Can Collective Intelligence Provide Answers to Climate Change Questions?, October 28, 2011
-->Thomas W. Malone quoted in the New York Times, Government Aims to Build a 'Data Eye in the Sky', October 10, 2011
-->Thomas W. Malone quoted in The Economist, Angst for the educated, September 3, 2011
-->Thomas W. Malone, Robert J. Laubacher, Tammy Johns, The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization, Harvard Business Review (HBR), July/August 2011
-->Thomas W. Malone, Anita Williams Woolley, Defend Your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women, Harvard Business Review (HBR), June 2011
-->Thomas W. Malone, Solving Climate Change with Crowdsourcing, MIT Sloan Experts Blog, Feb 6, 2011
-->CCI research reported in Science magazine is featured in over 30 media publications around the world
-->Climate CoLab membership reaches 1000
-->Article on Climate CoLab appears in Dot Earth, New York Times climate blog, October , 25, 2010
-->Climate CoLab contest starts October 1, 2010
-->CCI research on measuring collective intelligence published in Science magazine, September 30, 2010
-->NSF supports Climate Collaboratorium, September 24, 2010
-->Peter Gloor, Coolfarming, How to encourage innovation and inspire breakthrough products, interview in The Bulletin, September 2010
-->Thomas W. Malone, Collective Brainpower, MIT Spectrum, Summer 2010
-->Thomas W. Malone, Robert Laubacher, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, The Collective Intelligence Genome, MIT Sloan Management Review, Spr 2010
-->Thomas W. Malone, Davos 2010 - IdeasLab with MIT, YouTube presentation
-->Josh Tenenbaum, Davos 2010 - IdeasLab with MIT, YouTube presentation
-->At Davos, MIT faculty discuss the nature of intelligence, January 28, 2010
-->Climate Collaboratorium featured in MITei, Harnessing the world’s collective intelligence to deal with climate change, Dec 9, 2009
-->CCI's Climate Collaboratorium Project as a featured in an exhibit at the MIT Museum, September 2009
-->Tom Malone interview with Chris Beveridge of Cisco Systems available on Cisco's Web site

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