MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Posted on October 19th, 2006 by dhirender
Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled the Center for Collective Intelligence, a program that would use technology and what officials describe as “large numbers of people” to solve business, scientific, and societal problems.
Citing Google and Wikipedia as inspiration for the center, the center’s director, Thomas W. Malone, said the basic research question there would be “How can people and computers be connected so that, collectively, they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?”
One of the center’s first projects will be a Wikipedia-style business book about the effects of social networks on business operations.
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