Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management where he leads a project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He was Mercator Visiting Professor at the University of Cologne, and is a lecturer at Helsinki University of Technology. Earlier, Peter was a Senior Research Fellow at the Dartmouth Tuck Center for Digital Strategies and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich in 1989.
Peter is equally at home in the commercial world. He is founder and Chief Creative Officer of software startup galaxyadvisors. Until the end of 2002, Peter was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, leading its E-Business practice for Europe. Before that, he was a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Section Leader for Software Engineering at Union Bank of Switzerland. His latest books, Swarm Creativity - Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks , and Coolhunting - Chasing DownThe Next Big Thing (together with Scott Cooper) were published in 2006 by Oxford University Press and spring 2007 by AMACOM, respectively. He blogs about Swarm Creativity.

Nov 19th, 2009
Keynote at SFEM Swiss Forum for Educational Media
Kollaboration in Innovationsnetzwerken durch Schwarmkreativitaet
Berne, Switzerland

Oct 19th, 2009
Featured Talk at Innovation Immersion
Crowd-Sourcing, Cool Hunting & Cool Farming: Leveraging Swarm Creativity to Bring New Trends Over the Tipping Point
La Jolla, CA

Sept 29th, 2009
Keynote at Internet Summit Austria
Coolhunting durch Schwarmkreativität:Frühzeitiges Erkennen von Trends durch Soziale Netzwerkanalyse auf dem Web
Vienna, Austria

Aug 28th, 2009
Workshop at European Forum Alpbach
Part of the Technology Forum: Working Group 07: Creative industries vs. old economy: where is the economy headed? more...
Alpbach, Austria

Aug 8th, 2009
Workshop at the 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Reality Mining: Using Sociometric Badges for Automated Behavioral Data Collection. with Ben Waber, Lynn Wu, Sandy Pentland, Sinan Aral, David Lazer, and Erik Brynjolfsson more...
Chicago, Illinois

June 28th, 2009
Improving Health Care Delivery: The Role of Collaborative Social Networks
Panel presentation at AcademyHealth, Chicago. more...

June 24/25th, 2009
What is the Innovation Quotient of you and your team and how can you change it
An examination of how communication patterns, connectivity and sharing determine the innovation quotient of individuals and organisations, with examples in Financial Services and lessons in star-gazing, galactic journeys and a spot of waggle-dancing
Amplify, Sydney, Australia

June 17th, 2009
Dynamic Social Network Analysis with Condor
How to optimize the flow of knowledge in organizations through dynamic social network analysis
Swiss IT Leadership Forum, Cannes

June 9th, 2009
Von Hypermedia zu Collective Intelligence
RINGVORLESUNG "HAPPY FRONT END" #5: Peter Gloors Vortrag schlägt einen Bogen von den Anfängen des Webs bis hin zu "Predictive User Interfaces", die auf sozialer Netzwerkanalyse basieren...
Merz Akademie, Stuttgart

May 28th, 2009
Online Lecture at University of Amsterdam
Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarm Creativity. Video and synchronized slides of a 90 minutes virtual talk at University of Amsterdam

May 4th, 2009
Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarm Creativity
Keynote at the 5th EduMedia Conference 2009: Creativity and Innovation Competencies in the Web "e-creativity and e-innovation", Salzburg, Austria

April 6th, 2009
Coolhunting und Coolfarming durch Dynamische Soziale Netzwerkanalyse mit Condor
Comptuer Science Seminar, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Hochschule für Technik

April 3rd, 2009
Coolhunting - Chasing down the next big thing
Closing Plenary on Coolhunting - Ueber das Aufspueren von Collaborativen Innovationsnetzwerken, an der CRM 2009: 10. Jahrestagung Customer Relationship Management, Balance Resort Stegersbach, Austria

March 31th, 2009 11.50am
Transfer Transparent: Coolhunting durch Schwarmkreativität
Coolhunting bezeichnet systematisches Aufspüren von kommenden Trends und Trendsettern mittels sozialer Netzwerkanalyse. Mit Hilfe des am MIT entwickelten und nun an der FHNW/Technopark Aargau zur Produktreife gefuehrten webbasierten Tools „Condor“ können kollaborative Innovationsnetzwerke im Web, in Blogs und in online Foren erkannt und visualisiert werden.....(mit Jonas Krauss und Stefan Nann, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Brugg)

February, 2009
Nature article on "Secret Signals"
Mark Buchanan talks about Sandy Pentland's work on sociometric badges, and also profiles my work on patterns of creative individuals and teams.

January 26th, 2009 6pm
Visualizing Social Networks to Discover Trends and Trendsetters
Indiana University, Bloomington: Network and Complex Systems Talk
This talk introduces Condor, a tool for dynamic semantic social network analysis, which has been developed for the last six years...

January 13th to 15th, 2009 (3-6pm)
Short Course at MIT "Coolhunting and Coolfarming through Swarm Creativity"
As part of MIT's IAP (independent activities period), discover what’s going to be cool—before everyone else. In this course you will find out how to:
- discover cool trends for your field through Social Network Analysis by tapping into the collective intelligence of your potential customers (coolhunting)
- find the trendsetters who convert an innovation into a trend
- take the new trends you find and develop their business value (coolfarming)
Read more...

November 4th, 2008
Election Night at Swiss Residence in Lexington, MA
Organized in partnership with L'Hebdo (a Swiss weekly newspaper), the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, and the Forum of 100 outstanding personalities from the French part of Switzerland, the election night at the newly decorated Swiss residence in Lexington gathered around 100 people. Using a social networking tool analyzing blogs and sentiment on the web, Swiss scientist Peter Gloor presented in realtime what people think about Obama and McCain in the blogosphere. Read more...

November 2nd, 2008
USC Annenberg "Collaborative innovation networks: Coolhunting through swarmcreativity"
Join students and faculty for a presentation by Peter A. Gloor, Visiting Scholar and Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Read more...

November 2008
Internet Trend Research
Wer wird US-Präsident? Wie entwickeln sich die Aktienkurse? Welcher Film gewinnt einen Oscar? Ein Schweizer Informatiker gibt die Antwort - dank einer Software, mit der er die Kommunikationsströme im Internet analysiert. Read more...

October 2008
Wisdom of Crowds
Jeder möchte wissen, was die Zukunft bringt. "Wir wissen es", verspricht Peter Gloor. Denn seine Software für die Analyse sozialer Netzwerke sagte schon politische Wahlen und Oscar-Preisträger voraus. Jetzt ist der Unternehmer und Forscher, der sich seit 15 Jahren am MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Boston mit der Visualisierung von unstrukturiertem Wissen befasst und jetzt auch an der Helsinki University of Technology unterrichtet, mit seiner Jungfirma galaxyadvisors.com in den Technopark Aarau eingezogen. Read more...

April 2008
Is collaboration the future of invention?
Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) are online communities of like-minded people working together to create innovations. Author and scientist Peter Gloor originated the term. He describes it as a "cyberteam of self-motivated people with a collective vision." Read more...

Spring 2008
Coolhunting through Swarm Creativity
Was haben iPod, Facebook und YouTube gemeinsam? Sie sind innovativ, frisch und "cool". Jedes Unternehmen träumt davon solche Trends vorherzusagen, bevor sie in der Breite wirksam werden. Genau das leistet jetzt eine MIT-Software zur Analyse sozialer Netzwerke. Ihr Entwickler, Peter A. Gloor, zeigt, wie man damit Innovationen jagt. Read more...

February 7th, 2008
Web tool predicts election results and stock prices
Tools such as Google Trends and Blogpulse track what people are talking or thinking about by recording the frequency with which words are entered into search engines and appear on blog sites. Now Peter Gloor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is going a step further, and using the web to make specific predictions. His software, called Condor, has predicted the results of an Italian political party's internal election and successfully forecast stock market fluctuations. Read more...

Books

• Gloor, P. Cooper, S. Coolhunting - Chasing Down The Next Big Thing? AMACOM, NY, spring 2007
• Gloor, P. Swarm Creativity, Competitive Advantage Through Collaborative Innovation Networks. Oxford University Press, 2006
• Gloor, P. Making the e-Business Transformation: Sharing Knowledge in the e-Business Company, Springer, London, 2000.
• Gloor, P. Elements of Hypermedia Design: Techniques for Navigation and Visualization in Cyberspace. Birkhäuser, Cambridge MA, 1997. (Also available on the Web at http://www.ickn.org/elements/index.htm)
• Gloor, P. Dynes, S. Lee, I. Animated Algorithms. MIT Press, 1993. (CD-ROM)

Selected Papers
full list of recent publications is here

• Gloor, P. Krauss, J. Nann, S, Fischbach, K. Schoder, D. Web Science 2.0: Identifying Trends through Semantic Social Network Analysis IEEE Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom-09), Aug 29-31, Vancouver, 2009
• Olguin Olguin, D. Gloor, P. Pentland, A. Capturing Individual and Group Behavior with Wearable Sensors. Proc AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium, Stanford, March 23-25.
• DiMaggio, M. Gloor, P. Passiante, G.Collaborative Innovation Networks, Virtual Communities, and Geographical Clustering. International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, Special Issue Intelligent Clusters, Communities and Cities: Enhancing innovation with virtual environments and embedded systems
• Fischbach, K. Gloor, P. Schoder, D.Analysis of Informal Communication Networks – A Case Study. Business & Information Systems Engineering 2 | 2009, February 2009 (also in German)
• Egger, M. Fischbach, K. Gloor, P. Lang, A. Sprenger, M. How to Identify Successful Actors of the Flickr Community and How to Determine Their Attributes. In: Springer Lecture Notes in Informatics, No. 134, 2008, pp. 947-952
• Krauss, J. Nann, S. Simon, D. Fischbach, K.Gloor, P. Predicting Movie Success and Academy Awards Through Sentiment and Social Network Analysis. Proc. European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Galway, Ireland, June 9-11, 2008
• Gloor, P. Oster, D. Raz, O. Pentland, A. Schoder, D. "The Virtual Mirror - Reflecting on Your Social and Psychological Self to Increase Organizational Creativity", ickn working paper 2008.
• Overview Presentation "Applications of Dynamic Social Network Analysis" by Peter Gloor
• Gloor, Peter A.; Kidane, Yared H.; Grippa, Francesca; Marmier, Pascal; Von Arb, Christoph (2008): Location Matters - Measuring the Efficiency of Business Social Networking. In: International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy 4 (3-4), S. 230-245.
• Gloor, P. Oster, D. Putzke, J. Fischbach, K. Schoder, D. Ara, K. Kim, T. Laubacher, R. Mohan, A. Olguin Olguin, D. Pentland, A. Waber, B. Studying Microscopic Peer-to-Peer Communication Patterns. Proc. AMCIS Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, Colorado, Aug. 9-12, 2007
• Gloor, P. Coolhunting for Trends on the Web. (invited paper) Proc. IEEE 2007 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, Orlando, May 21-25, 2007
• Gloor, P. Cooper, S. "The New Principles of a Swarm Business" . Sloan Management Review. April 2007
• Gloor, P. Paasvaara, M. Schoder, D. Willems, P.   Finding Collaborative Innovation Networks Through Correlating Performance With Social Network Structure. Journal of Production Research , Taylor and Francis, April 2007
• Raz, O. Gloor, P. Size Really Matters - New Insights for Startup's Survival, Management Science, February 2007
• Gloor, P. Richardet, R. Coolhunting on the Web and in the Blogosphere. Sunbelt 2007, Corfu, Greece, May 2-6 2007.
• Grippa, F. Gloor, P. Selective Memories Favor Influentials. Sunbelt 2007, Corfu, Greece, May 2-6 2007.
• Marte, A. Gloor, P. Trust Me! - Analyzing Global Leadership Networks. Sunbelt 2007, Corfu, Greece, May 2-6 2007.
• Oster, D. Gloor, P. Optimizing Service and Innovation Teams Through Dynamic Social Network Analysis. Sunbelt 2007, Corfu, Greece, May 2-6 2007.
• Seehawer, T. Fischbach, K. Schoder, D. Gloor, P. Germany Incorporated - The influence of interlocking directorates and intercorporate shareholdings on business performance. Sunbelt 2007, Corfu, Greece, May 2-6 2007.
• Kidane, Y. Gloor, P. Correlating temporal communication patterns of the Eclipse open source community with performance and creativity, Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory. Volume 13, Issue 1 (March 2007), ISSN:1381-298X, 17 - 27, 2007
• Zilli, A. Grippa, F. Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. One in Four Is Enough – Strategies for Selecting Ego Mailboxes for a Group Network View. Proc. European Conference on Complex Systems ECCS '06, Sept. 25-29, Oxford UK, 2006
• Gloor, P. Paasviaara, M. Schoder, D. Willems, P. Correlating Performance with Social Network Structure Through Teaching Social Network Analysis. Proc. Pro-Ve 06, 7th IFIP Conference on Working Enterprises, Sep.25-27, Helsinki, 2006.
• Gloor, P. Zhao, Y. Analyzing Actors and Their Discussion Topics by Semantic Social Network Analysis, Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation IV06, London, 5-7 July 2006.
• Schiefer, S. Tegethoff, L. Gloor, P. Analyzing the Social Network of Wikinews Contributors, MIT CCS working paper, 2006.
• Grippa, F. Zilli, A. Laubacher, R. Gloor, P. E-mail May Not Reflect The Social Network, NAACSOS Conference, June 22 - 23, Notre Dame IN, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science, 2006
• Zilli, A. Grippa, F. Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. One in Four Is Enough – Strategies for Selecting Ego Mailboxes for a Group Network View, extended abstract for Sunbelt 2006, Vancouver, April 26-29, 2006.
• Gloor, P. Zhao, Y. Visualizing Temporal Social Networks in Context – Adding Content Analysis to TeCFlow, Abstract for Sunbelt 2006, Vancouver, April 26-29, 2006.
• Gloor, P. Niepel, S, Li, Y. Identifying Potential Suspects by Temporal Link Analysis. MIT CCS working paper, Jan. 2006
• Joo, S. Gloor, P. Schnorf, S. Detection of Power User Patterns Among High School Students in a Mobile Communication Network. Power Users of ICT International Symposium, Costa Rica, Aug.8-10, 2005
• Gloor, P. Capturing Team Dynamics Through Temporal Social Surfaces, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV05, London, 6-8 July 2005.
• Kidane, Y. Gloor, P. Correlating Temporal Communication Patterns of the Eclipse Open Source Community with Performance and Creativity, NAACSOS Conference, June 26 - 28, Notre Dame IN, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science, 2005.
• Gloor, P. Zhao, Y. Visualizing Time in Social Networks with TeCFlow, (Web document) submitted, 2005.
• Gloor, P. Zhao, Y. TeCFlow - A Temporal Communication Flow Visualizer for Social Networks Analysis, ACM CSCW Workshop on Social Networks. ACM CSCW Conference, Chicago, Nov. 6. 2004.
• Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Zhao, Y. Dynes, S. Temporal Visualization and Analysis of Social Networks, NAACSOS Conference, June 27 - 29, Pittsburgh PA, North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science, 2004.
• Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Zhao, Y. Dynes,S. Schrott, G. Trying to Correlate Temporal Communication Patterns of Online Communities with Innovation, Presentation at Sunbelt, Social Networks Analysis Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 13-16, 2004.
• Gloor, P. Zhao, Y. A Temporal Visualization of a Web Community. Quicktime movie shown at Sunbelt 2004.
• Gloor, P. Heckman, C. Makedon, F. Ethical Issues in Virtual Communities of Innovation. Ethicomp 2004, the 7th International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communcation Technologies, Syros, Greece, April 14-16. 2004
• Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Dynes, S. Zhao, Y. Visualization of Communication Patterns in Collaborative Innovation Networks: Analysis of some W3C working groups. ACM CKIM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, Nov 3-8, 2003.
• Gloor, P. Laubacher, R. Dynes, S. Zhao, Y. Visualization of Interaction Patterns in Collaborative Knowledge Networks for Medical Applications, Proc. HCII, Crete, June 25-27, 2003.
• Gloor, P. Collaborative Knowledge Networks. eJETA electronic Journal on E-Business Technologies and Applications, Vol 1, No 3, 2002. www.ejeta.org
• Deloitte Consulting, Collaborative Knowledge Networks: Driving Workforce Performance Through Web-Enabled Communities, 2001

Current Projects

Swarmcreativity through COINs (Collaborative Innovation Networks

The goal of this research project is to help organizations to increase knowledge worker productivity and innovation, by creating "Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs)". COINs allow for building organizations that are more creative, productive, and efficient by applying principles of creative collaboration, knowledge sharing, and social networking....read more

Combining Prediction Markets & Web Sentiment

The goal of this project is to combine prediction markets with swarm prediction through Web mining. Does the swarm (i.e. the combination of Web/ blogs/online forums) know more than the individuals participating in a prediction market?.... read more

Sensible Organizations

To goal of this project is to analyze and come up with interventions for optimizing individual and organizational creativity through microscopic social network analysis using sociometers...... read more.... MIT Media Lab Web site

Course COINs - "Be a Bee"

In this course taught each fall jointly at MIT, Helsinki University of Technology, University of Cologne, and Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), students learn to hunt for, grow and develop cool ideas by "being a bee". They learn to communicate in multinational, multicultural, multidisciplinary environments by collaborating in a virtual team with members from Finland, Germany, and the US they will never meet face-to-face. They learn how to use skype, e-mail, blogs, wikis, webconferencing most effectively. They learn about swarmcreativity, Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), social network analysis, coolhunting and coolfarming by automatically analyzing online social networks on the Web, Blogs, Forums, e-Mail, etc. using the dynamic social network analysis tool Condor. They learn how to coolhunt in a company, on the Web, Blogs, or in online forums for cool ideas and innovators. They learn how to coolfarm cool ideas and cool people in a company, on the Web, in Blogs, or in an online forum. They will also learn about themselves by watching a “virtual mirror” of their own communication behavior, seeing how team members perceive them, as a communicator, a collaborator, or a coordinator.

Virtual Brownbag COIN on COINs"

The virtual brownbag "COIN on COINs" is the group of people from MIT, Helsinki, Cologne, Wayne State, University of Lecce and many more working on COINs, social network analysis, Condor, Coolhunting, and Coolfarming. We meeting monthly on the Web to present and discuss our latest work and technical issues and tricks with SNA and Condor.

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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pgloor@mit.edu