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? |
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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.
-->Ben Shneiderman of UMaryland on Technology-Mediated Social Participation, Tue Nov 10, 3:30-5:00
-->Jack Hughes, Founder and CEO of TopCoder on Working in an Inter-Connected World, Wed Dec 9, 4:00-5:30
-->CCI's Climate Collaboratorium Project as a featured in an exhibit at the MIT Museum, September 2009
-->Eric von Hippel quoted on user centered innovation in NY Times, Oct 2009
-->John Sterman in NatureNews on the climate model used in CCI's Climate Collaboratorium, Instant climate model gears up, September 2009
-->Deborah Ancona, Distributed leadership video interview in The Financial Times
-->Thomas W. Malone quoted in The Economist, Opinion section, August 27, 2009, The world according to Chambers
-->CCI and Thomas W. Malone as featured in New York Times business and technology section, July 19, 2009, The Crowd Is Wise (When it's Focused)
-->Thomas W. Malone as quoted in New York Times small business section, June 24, 2009, How to enlist a global work force of freelancers
-->Thomas W. Malone as quoted in Wired, May 2009
-->Thomas W. Malone interview on GreenBiz.com, May 5, 2009, Can Collective Intelligence Save the Planet?
-->New CCI working paper, Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence, now available
-->Sandy (Alex) Pentland, Harvard Business Review, February 2009, The HBR List, Breakthrough Ideas for 2009
-->Sandy (Alex) Pentland, World Economic Forum, Davos Talk 2009, You Tube, January 2009
-->Tom Malone interview with Chris Beveridge of Cisco Systems available on Cisco's Web site
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