Massachusetts Institute of Technology
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE FROM SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
Sandy Pentland, MIT Media
Lab
Thursday, September
28, 2006 4:00-5:30 pm
NE20-336 Conference Room
(3 Cambridge Center)
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Abstract
Most human organizations are built on the assumption that humans are
boundedly rational individuals. However recent research supports a view
that the core of human intelligence is neither individual nor rational
in any traditional sense: it is a consequence of largely unconscious
factors in social interactions. By switching from 'homo economicus' to
'homo socialus' I show that it is possible to improve information flow
within organizations and that it may be possible to create more
effective idea markets.
Speaker bio
Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland is a pioneer in wearable computers,
health systems, smart environments, and technology for developing
countries. He is a co-founder of the Wearable Computing research
community, the Autonomous Mental Development research community, the
Center for Future Health, and was the founding director of the Media
Lab Asia. He was formerly the Academic Head of the MIT Media
Laboratory, and is MIT's Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences,
and Director of Human Dynamics Research. He has won numerous
international awards in the Arts, Sciences and Engineering and was
chosen by Newsweek as one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape the
next century.
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