Collective Intelligence 2014

Collective Intelligence 2014
MIT, Cambridge, MA
June 10-12, 2014

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

human computation
social computing
crowdsourcing
wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)
group memory and extended cognition
collective decision making and problem-solving
participatory and deliberative democracy
animal collective behavior
organizational design
public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform)
ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., “digital sweatshops”)
computational models of group search and optimization
emergence and evolution of intelligence
new technologies for making groups smarter

FORMAT

The conference will consist of Invited talks from prominent researchers in different areas related to collective intelligence including:

Linda Argote, Organizational Behavior and Theory @ Carnegie Mellon
Emily Falk, Communications @ University of Pennsylvania
Henry Farrell, Political Science and International Affairs @ George Washington
David Gibson, Sociology @ Notre Dame
Niki Kittur, Human Computer Interaction Institute @ Carnegie Mellon
Jens Krause, Biology and Ecology of Fish @ Humboldt University Berlin
Karim Lakhani, Business Administration @ Harvard
Helene Landemore, Political Science @ Yale
Naomi Leonard, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering @ Princeton
Jason Matheny, Open Source Indicators Program
David Mendonca, Industrial and Systems Engineering @ RPI
Barbara Mellers, Psychology @ University of Pennsylvania
Radhika Nagpal, Computer Science @ Harvard
Beth Noveck, Wagner School of Public Service @ NYU, Founder & Director of the Governance Lab
Van Parunak, Chief Scientist @ Soar Technology
Stephen Pratt, School of Life Sciences @ Arizona State
Betsy Sparrow, Psychology @ Columbia
Kate Starbird, Human Centered Design & Engineering @ University of Washington
Lyle Ungar, Computer & Information Science @ University of Pennsylvania
Luis von Ahn, Computer Science @ Carnegie Mellon, Founder of reCAPTCHA & duolingo