Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
human computation
social computing
crowdsourcing
wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)
group memory and problem-solving
deliberative democracy
animal collective behavior
mechanism design
organizational design
public policy design
ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., “-digital sweatshops”-)
computational models of group search and optimization
emergence of intelligence
new technologies for making groups smarter
Thomas Malone is a smart man, and his institution is a great idea. But I can’-t stand that:
Solving Climate Change with CrowdSourcing
I am fed up with the academics who are overselling the wisdom of crowds. Enough already.
Photo Credit: Neely Steinberg
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Tom Malone
MIT’-s Center for Collective Intelligence
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PS: The guy on the computer is Jason Carver.
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I’-m free to talk, now.
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The New York Times don’-t print that, but they print that MIT CCI’-s Thomas Malone (branded in the piece as a prediction market evangelizer) has been advising The Industry Standard.
I spotted dozens of news articles on the Industry Standard’-s re-launching. Their spin doctor did a good job. 
By the way, speaking of media-managed prediction exchanges, the CNN prediction exchange has some prediction markets with each a total of transactions in the magnitude of 50,000. That’-s awesome. Congrats to Inkling Markets. Mike Giberson (who has become an expert in MSR trading) is one of the traders, probably…-