Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Creating new examples of collective intelligence
The Climate Collaboratorium
Using new collaboration tools, this project is attempting to harness the collective intelligence of thousands of people to help solve the problems of global climate change.
Collective prediction
This project will attempt to combine human and machine intelligence in flexible new ways to make accurate predictions about future events such as product sales, political events, and outcomes of medical treatments.
Collective intelligence in healthcare
This project focuses on harnessing the collective intelligence of medical professionals, researchers, and others to provide better healthcare for individual patients.
Studying collective intelligence in today's organizations
Distributed collaboration
Using interviews and case studies, this project will examine the various technologies and practices used for distributed collaboration in organizations.
Sensible organizations
This project is using new sensors embedded in wearable "social badges" as a kind of "information microscope" to systematically analyze organizations at a much finer grained level than has been done before.
Developing theories of collective intelligence
The Handbook of Collective Intelligence
This collaboratively developed Handbook will provide a survey of the field of collective intelligence, summarizing what is known, providing references to sources for further information, and suggesting possibilities for future research.
Measuring collective intelligence
Intelligence tests can predict the performance of individuals across a broad range of tasks. Imagine if we had an instrument that could predict the performance of groups—combinations of people assisted by computers, telecommunications links, and other man-made devices—across a range of relevant tasks. The goal of this project is to determine whether such an instrument is feasible, and if so, to develop and test it.
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