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Collective Intelligence
MODERATOR:
David Thorburn
MIT Professor of Literature
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Director, MIT Communications Forum

PANELISTS:
Thomas W. Malone: Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Sloan Faculty Profile page
Malone's page on the Center for Coordination Science site
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
Alex (Sandy) Pentland: Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, MIT Media Lab
Pentland's Media Lab site
Karim R. Lakhani: Assistant Professor, Technology and Operations Management Unit, Harvard Business School
Lakhani's HBS website
ABOUT THE PANEL DISCUSSION:
Can human beings, with the help of smart machines, not merely avoid “collective idiocy” (in Sandy Pentland’s words), but actually achieve a degree of intelligence previously unattainable by either humans or machines alone? These three panelists study the possibilities from different angles.

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