News & Events
Events
Upcoming
ACM Collective Intelligence Conference 2021 (CI-2021), June 29-30, 2021
Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversation Series
This series of virtual events broadens the conversation around individual technical challenge areas identified in the Pandemic Response Supermind Activation. During each session, thought leaders from across the scientific community take an in-depth look at the current state-of-affairs in the relevant topic area, share data-driven insights and discuss the latest innovations and proposed solutions to some of today’s toughest challenges in pandemic response. Each session includes live audience Q&A. Join our upcoming conversations:
Replay of past events:
Mask Innovations for Virus Transmission Control, May 28, 2020
Harnessing Data, Diligence and Collective Intelligence, June 25, 2020
Innovations in Diagnostics and Detection on the Road to Re-densification, August 20, 2020
Vaccines and Therapies and the Need for Speed, September 17, 2020
Validating and Sharing Scientific Information, October 13, 2020
Lessons Learned on the Road to Pandemic Preparedness, November 18, 2020
CCI CoLab Challenges
Pandemic Response CoLab, Retooling Methods of Scientific Communication, Submissions accepted through January 8, 2021
Pandemic Response CoLab, Re-imagining Early Warning Systems for Infectious Disease, Submissions accepted through January 8, 2021
MIT Sloan Executive Education courses taught by Professor Thomas W. Malone
Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy, Focusing on key AI technologies, such as machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics, this course will help you understand the implications of these new technologies for business strategy, as well as the economic and societal issues they raise, course offered 6 – 8 times per year
Machine Learning in Business, In this online short course, you’ll be guided to discover the business potential of machine learning, while developing strategies for effective implementation, course offered 4 – 6 times per year
Past Events
Collective Intelligence 2020, Virtual Conference, June 18, 2020
Collective Intelligence 2019 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – June 13 – 14, 2019
Superminds Book Launch, at MIT and on Webcast, May 21, 2018
Collective Intelligence 2018, Zurich, Switzerland – July 7 – 8, 2018
HUBweek, Boston, MA, October 8 – 14, 2018
Climate CoLab Conferences, 2013 – 2018
Recent Press
- Forbes, Collective Intelligence Is About To Disrupt Your Strategy: Are You Ready?, April 28, 2021
- Boston Globe, Craving connection in ‘neighborhood office buildings’, April, 2021
- SEI, Q&A: How collective intelligence can contribute to the SDGs, March 9, 2021
- Axios, Workers need help to maximize new machine colleagues. December 19, 2020
- Thomas W. Malone, Daniela Rus, & Robert Laubacher, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, MIT Work of the Future RB17-2020, December 17, 2020
- HR People + Strategy, Creating Superminds of Human-Computing Resources. Fall 2020
- Fast Company, 3 ways gender ‘brain diversity’ can make Joe Biden and Kamala Harris better leaders. December 1, 2020
- MarketWatch, 4 questions to ask yourself about living to 100 – because there’s a chance you will. November 30, 2020
- Diginomica, Ad hoc interactions in the age of virtual work – an unsolved problem. November 18, 2020
- Harvard Business Review, Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts. October 28, 2020
- Fast Company, Zoom call can be too formal. These alternatives encourage casual chatting. October 6, 2020
- Rediff.com, What WFH is doing to office ‘time-pass’. September 24, 2020
- CMS Wire, The Force Shaping the Digital Workplace. September 3, 2020
- MIT Technology Review, Remote workers want to re-create those watercooler moments, virtually. August 17, 2020
- Quartz, Water cooler moments don’t have to disappear in the virtual workplace. August 12, 2020
- Techstination, Minglr from MIT researchers to allow better video conference personal interactions, Online interview with Thomas Malone. August 11, 2020 (Reposted segment on Techstination, September 3, 2020)
- The Boston Globe, App developed at MIT, Northeastern looks to connect strangers via video chat. August 10, 2020
- Beebom, MIT’s New Video-Conferencing Platform is All About “Impromptu Conversations”. August 9, 2020
- RemoteWorkerTech, Minglr chat tool aims to bring ‘watercooler’ talk back to remote work. August 7, 2020
- News8Plus, Open-source software program overcomes the restrictions of videoconferences by supporting impromptu conversations. August 4, 2020
- AiThority, MIT Sloan Creates “Minglr” – An Open Source Skype And Zoom Video Competitor. August 4, 2020
- MIT Sloan School of Management, Introducing Minglr: New open source software developed at MIT Sloan helps overcome the limitations of videoconferences by supporting impromptu conversations. August 4, 2020
- AiThority, MIT Sloan Creates “Minglr” – An Open Source Skype And Zoom Video Competitor. August 4, 2020
- Hit Infrastructure, New Online Collaboration Platforms Aims to Solve COVID-19 Problems. July 23, 2020
- Energy Central, Collective Intelligence & The Energy Trading Floor Of The New Decade. June 10, 2020
- Home Health Care News, In-Home Care Workers Primed for New Roles as ‘Amazonization’ of Health Care Continues. June 7, 2020
- Devex, The future of health and medicine in low- and middle-income countries. May 27, 2020
- The Hill, Why we need a ‘Digital WPA’ similar to the Depression-era Works Progress Administration. May 4, 2020
- AI Trends, Bootstrap your AI Education: Here Are Some Options. December 12, 2019
- Express Pharma, Co-creating a smart ecosystem for pharma. November 25, 2019
- MIT Sloan School of Management, What business leaders need to know about artificial intelligence. September 16, 2019
- Hackernoon, Why Crypto-Trading Will Get Social in 2020. September 13, 2019
- GQ, Conheça o publicitário que encontrou uma saída num mercado tão competitivo. September 9, 2019
- “Thomas W. Malone: 2019 National Book Festival,” Library of Congress (Event date: August 31, 2019)
- “Open Phones with Thomas Malone,” C-SPAN (Premiere date: August 31, 2019)
- PRI’s The World, Will the next wave of humanoid robots make our lives better — or steal our jobs?. August 21, 2019 (Reposted on WGBH, Are Adorable Robots Coming For Your Job? ‘It’s never happened In The Past.’ August 23, 2019)
More Press Coverage
- Human Resource Executive, Are ‘Superminds’ the Next Step in Tech Disruption?. August 2, 2019
- Forbes, Top 10 IoT Startups of 2019 According To IoT Analytics. July 18, 2019
- “Collective intelligence: Talks of the Future 2019,” Congreso Futuro (Premiere date: June 14, 2019)
- Economía y Negocios, Goic presentará hoy indicaciones a la Ley del Cáncer en base a inédito método digital desarrollado con el MIT. April 8, 2019
- The Wall Street Journal, What AI Will Do to Corporate Hierarchies. April 1, 2019
- BBC, Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness? March 27, 2019
- Bloomberg, Billionaire Has a New Goal for His 17,000 Workers: Learn to Code. March 19, 2019
- Financial Times, The ‘softer’ side of
business is harder to get right. February 24, 2019 - Diario Financiero, Experto del MIT y el
futuro trabajo : “Necesitamospensar en cómo las máquinas nospueden colaborar .” January 30, 2019 - Deloitte Insights, Superminds: How humans and machines can work together. January 28, 2019
- MIT Technology Review, How AI is changing knowledge work: MIT’s Thomas Malone, Podcast. January 24, 2019 (On Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mit-technology-review/business-lab)
- Medium,
Superalgos & The Trading Singularity. January 16, 2019 - Prensa Antártica, Thomas Malone y las “
supermentes ” en #CongresoFuturo en Magallanes: entreinteligencia artificial,cambio climático ysociedad . January 13, 2019 - La Opinión A Coruña, Nuestros
logros sonfruto deuna red. January 4, 2019 - dinheiro
vivo , Novas Ideias e Novas Soluções. December 3, 2018 - Fergus Nicoll, Interview with Thomas Malone, Business Matters, BBC World Service, November 29, 2018. (Interview segment at time 26:30 – 34:05. Discussion of the interview by commentators at time 34:05 – 41.45)
- Forbes, Diversity Is The Key to Startup Success – What Can Early-stage Founders Do About It? November 12, 2018
- all turtles, How swarm intelligence helps AI make better decisions. November 8, 2018
- Breaker, How “Superminds” Will Help the World Solve Its Most Intractable Problems. October 17, 2018
- Axios, The upside of humans – a lot of them. September 21, 2018
- Netzwoche, Wie die Digitalisierung Mensch und Maschine
zum Supergehirnvernetzt . September 17, 2018 - The Economist, The pros and cons of collaboration. September 6, 2018
- Management Today, How AI-human superminds will save jobs. August 20, 2018
- People Matters, Collective Intelligence should be made a Core HR Function. August 15, 2018
- “The Future of Collective Intelligence,” The Day That Was (Channel 10, Israeli TV), July 31, 2018
- The Australian Financial Review, Expanded opportunities in the new workplace. July 25, 2018
- Management Today, What CEOs are reading – July 2018. July 17, 2018
- Insights Unboxed, How human intelligence differs from artificial intelligence. July 17, 2018
- MIT Sloan: A Better World in the Making, Putting Collective Intelligence to Work. July 9, 2018
- La Vanguardia, La
inteligencia artificial sólo esconectar lashumanas . July 9, 2018 - MIT Sloan School of Management, 8 new business insights from MIT Sloan Management Review. July 6, 2018
- Gizmodo, My 15 Favorite Science and Tech Books for Smart Beach Reading. July 5, 2018
- Quartz, By the definition of consciousness, Apple could be considered a conscious organism. June 28, 2018
- Entrepreneur Europe, Why Europe is Facing a Digital Skills Crisis. June 25, 2018
- MarketWatch, Don’t worry, robots aren’t going to steal your job – yet. June 23, 2018
- “The benefit of working in groups,” Interview with Thomas Malone about ‘Superminds’. The Morning Show, Global TV (Canada), June 19, 2018
- The Economist, Why collaborative thinking beats individual smarts. June 18, 2018
- The Globe and Mail, Fake news is a problem. Maybe ‘superminds’ can help. June 15, 2018
- The Wall Street Journal, Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of Humans and Machines. June 8, 2018
- The Washington Post, In the future, college never really ends. June 6, 2018
- Salon, What Elon Musk doesn’t understand about journalism. June 2, 2018
- Bloomberg, Who Among Us Can Read a Sextant? June 1, 2018 (Reprint in The Post and Courier, New technology endangers old skills. June 3, 2018)
- MIT Sloan Management Review, How Human-Computer ‘Superminds’ are Redefining the Future of Work. May 21, 2018
- LinkedIn, Is cyber socialism worth a try? May 18, 2018 (Chinese translation, July 27, 2018)
- MIT Sloan Newsroom, In ‘Superminds,’ an Argument for Calm About Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Jobs. May 15, 2018
- MIT News, Prize-winning projects promote healthier eating, smarter crop investments. May 4, 2018
- Forbes, Our New Publishing Platform Will Make You a Better Writer. April 20, 2018
- Xconomy, Can AI Startups Compete with Tech Giants? December 26, 2017
- MIT News, Exploring ethical dimensions of climate negotiation. December 18, 2017
- El Mundo, El gigantismo de Google y Facebook. September 27, 2017
- TechTarget, How to harness the collective intelligence of the enterprise. August 2, 2017
- CCI paper on contest webs at CSCW, February 2017
- CCI work on smart teams featured in MIT Exec Ed’s Innovation@Work, March 2017
- Interview with Tom Malone, Harnessing the Power of Collective Intelligence, November 2016
- CCI celebrates its 10th anniversary, November 2016
- CCI measures the intelligence of online gaming teams, Nature News, March 2016
- MIT News, Getting the world to turn down the heat. Janos Pasztor, U.N. climate advisor, highlights successes in Paris, challenges ahead. March 14, 2016
- NY Times Magazine article on teams features MCI project’s findings, February 2016
- How to Become the Smartest Group in the Room, Psychology Science, January 2016
- Mark Klein interviewed by El Pais, January 2016
- Building Better Organizations with Collective Intelligence: Webinar with Thomas W. Malone, July 22, 2015
- Thomas W. Malone discusses the Climate CoLab in the Boston Globe, May 2015
- MIT Sloan News – Climate CoLab crowdsources solutions for global problems, March 2015
- Thomas W. Malone discusses group intelligence, NPR’s On Point, January 2015
- Why Some Teams are Smarter than Others, NY Times, January 2015
- Climate CoLab hosts webinar with former Secretary of State and former Congressman on U.S. carbon pricing, July 2014
- Thomas Malone on building smarter teams, May 2014: Article, Video, Podcast
- MIT Climate CoLab: Crowdsourcing climate change, one contest at a time, April 2014
- Climate CoLab featured by the White House Climate Data Initiative, March 2014
- George Shultz, Bob Inglis and Phil Sharp advise MIT Climate CoLab on carbon policy contest, March 2014
- Article on Climate CoLab in PBS’s NOVA Next, January 2014
- ClimateWire, Former Reagan official predicts Republican skeptics will be ‘mummed’ by climate change, July 2014
- Peter Gloor on Coolhunting the Secrets of Success, July 2014
- thepsychreport, MIT Crowdsources the Next Great (free) IQ Test, January 2014
- PBS, How Millions of People Can Help Solve Climate Change, January 2014
- Guardian Sustainable Business, Harnessing the crowd to promote sustainable innovation, November 2013
- MIT News, Confronting climate change from the bottom up, November 2013
- Thomas W. Malone speaks at IBM Cognitive Systems Colloquium, October 2, 2013, (video of this talk)
- Think Progress, Citizen Science: How A Facebook Game Could Help Us Tackle Climate Change, October 2013
- co.EXIST, 28 Ingenious Solutions To Our Climate Woes, October 2013
- eBay, eBay Inc. employees create carpool app that’s recognized by MIT Climate CoLab competition, August 2013
- Exploring Humanity’s Evolving Global Brain, December 2012
- Collective Intelligence, A conversation with Thomas W. Malone, November 2012
- Dalai Lama discusses global problems with Sloan professors, Thomas W. Malone, Deborah Ancona, John Sterman, MIT Sloan newsroom, Oct 17, 2012
- Thomas W. Malone, panel discussion, MIT with the Dalai Lama, MIT News, Oct 16, 2012, (full video of the conference)
- CCI research featured in Doonesbury comic strip, July 15, 2012
- Climate Colab in NSF Highlights, Online Citizen Collaboration Provides Climate Solutions, June 5, 2012
- Programming the Global Brain, May 2012
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Newsletter, Harnessing collective intelligence to address climate change: MIT‘s Climate CoLab, May 2012
- Sandy (Alex) Pentland, Finding good music in noisy online markets, MIT News, May 31, 2012
- Thomas W. Malone receives honorary doctorate from University of Zurich, May 2012
- Peter Gloor referenced in The Economist, The science of civil war – What makes heroic strife, April 21, 2012
- Thomas W. Malone, Collective Intelligence 2012, MIT Sloan Experts blog, April 2012
- Thomas Malone quoted in Boston Globe, April 3, 2012
- Thomas Malone, MIT conference focuses on ‘collective intelligence’, Boston Herald, April 3, 2012
- Thomas Malone, Collective Intelligence 2012, BusinessWire.com, April 2, 2012
- CI 2012 Collective Intelligence 2012 – abstracts and videos from the conference, April 2012
- Presentations by CCI affiliates at CSCW, February 2012:
- CSCW 2012, Mark Klein co-organizer: Workshop on Collective Intelligence as Community Discourse and Action
- CSCW 2012, Josh Introne co-organizer: Workshop on Design, Influence, and Social Technologies: Techniques, Impacts and Ethics
- CSCW 2012, Yiftach Nagar presents: The Structuring of an Online Community as a Collective–Sensemaking Process
- CSCW 2012, Katrina Panovich, Rob Miller, David Karger present: Tie Strength in Question & Answer on Social Network Sites
- CSCW 2012, Paul André, Michael Bernstein, Kurt Luther present: Who Gives a Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value
- Fast Company, Climate CoLab: Harnessing The Hive Mind To Alleviate Climate Change January 2012
- Yiftach Nagar, How will the practice of science change in your lifetime?, Science, NextGen VOICES, January 6, 2012
- Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (watch the video) joins CCI in celebrating its 5th 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, November 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, June 2011
- NiemanLab, MIT management professor Tom Malone on collective intelligence and the “genetic” structure of groups. May 4, 2011
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tweeting for Social Good in Davos, HBR Blog Network, February 1, 2010