Collective Intelligence

September 24, 2019 | 9am - 6pm EST
Singleton Auditorium, Building 46

Quest Workshop on Collective Intelligence

Almost everything we humans have ever achieved has not been done by individuals acting alone, but by groups of people working together in ways that seem intelligent. Financial markets operate on this principle of collective intelligence to set prices for stocks, as do Internet searches that deliver answers to questions thousands have asked before.  Computers can make groups even smarter, but how should humans and machines interact? 

This workshop will explore the ways that people and machines, working separately or together, can leverage their relative strengths, resolve conflicts, and create value for society. The workshop will feature people from across MIT who are exploring aspects of collective intelligence from many different disciplinary perspectives.

Speakers

  • Daniel Huttenlocher (Photo Credit: Schwarzman College of Computing)

    Daniel Huttenlocher

    Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
    Henry Ellis Warren Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • Computer Vision
    • Machine Learning
  • Photo of Roger Levy

    Roger Levy

    Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
    • Machine Learning
    • Natural Language Processing
    Missions
    Language
  • David Rand

    David Rand

    Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
    Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
    Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
    • Computational Cognition
    • Behavioral Science
    Missions
    Collective Intelligence
  • Daniela Rus portrait

    Daniela Rus

    Deputy Dean of Research, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
    Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    • Machine Learning
    • AI Robotics
    Missions
    Collective Intelligence
  • Photo of Abdullah Almaatouq

    Abdullah Almaatouq

    Assistant Professor of Information Technology, Sloan
  • Photo of Bengt Holmstrom

    Bengt Holmstrom

    Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics

Schedule

Schedule

When: Tuesday September 24, 2019, 9:00 am-6:00 pm

Where: Building 46 Atrium and Singleton Auditorium

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Thomas Malone and Dan Huttenlocher: Welcome remarks

9:20 AM - 9:45 AM

Drazen Prelec: 'Truth seruim' mechanisms for collective intelligence

9:50 AM - 10:15 AM

David Rand: Wisdom in partisan crowds

10:20 AM - 10:45 AM

Thomas Malone: Creating human-computer superminds

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM

Break

11:05 AM - 11:30 AM

Abdullah Almaatouq: Studying Collective Intelligence in the Virtual Lab

11:35 AM - 12:00 PM

Sandy Pentland: Diversity and collective intelligence: moving beyond standard models

12:05 PM - 1:05 PM

Lunch: Bagged lunch will be provided

1:05 PM - 1:20 PM

Bengt Holmstrom on Collective Intelligence (Interviewed by Thomas Malone, recorded)

1:20 PM - 1:45 PM

Jonathan How: Collaborative Learning in Multiagent Teams

1:50 PM - 2:15 PM

Roger Levy: Human Language and Collective Intelligence

2:20 PM - 2:45 PM

Julie Shah: Title TBD

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Break

3:15 PM - 3:40 PM

Ali Jadbabaie: Collective phenomena in social systems

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Daniela Rus: Robot Collaboration

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Panel: Thomas Malone (Moderator/Host), David Rand, Sandy Pentland, Drazen Prelec, Daniela Rus
How can Collective Intelligence research be applied in the real world?

4:45 PM - 6:00 PM

Reception and Poster session: Refreshments will be served

Conference Organizers

Thomas Malone, Kathleen Kennedy, Rachel Donahue

Questions to: rjd@mit.edu