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Joint Distinguished Lecturer 

COMPUTER SCIENCE,UMIACS
&
COLLEGE OF INFORMATION STUDIES 

Thomas W. Malone
MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Today,November 3, 2008 - CSIC Building - Room 1115
Talk: 4:00pm - 5:00 pm 
Panel Discussion: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Reception will be held before the talk at 3:30pm - CSIC lobby

Title: Classifying and Designing Collective Intelligence

Abstract:
Some of the most interesting recent Internet applications (like
Wikipedia, Digg, and Google) are 
examples of what is variously called "Web 2.0" or "collective
intelligence."  Designing such systems 
well is not just a matter of software design; it's also a matter of
organizational design.  This talk will describe some examples of these
new types of systems and present early results of a project whose 
goals are to systematically classify them and identify the conditions in
which they are useful. One goal 
of this work is to develop principles for designing both the software
and the other organizational 
elements needed for successful collective intelligence.
 
Bio:
Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at
the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT
Center for Collective Intelligence.  He was also the founder and
director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two
founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the
Organizations of the 21st Century". Professor Malone teaches classes on
leadership and information technology, and his research focuses on how
new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities
provided by information technology.  The past two decades of Professor
Malone's groundbreaking research are summarized in his critically
acclaimed book, The Future of Work:  How the New Order of Business Will
Shape Your Organization,Your Management Style, and Your Life (Harvard
Business School Press, 2004). Professor Malone has also published over
75 articles, research papers, and book chapters; he is an inventor with
11 patents; and he is the co-editor of three books: Coordination Theory
and Collaboration Technology (Erlbaum, 2001), Inventing the
Organizations of the 21st Century (MIT Press, 2003), and Organizing
Business Knowledge:  The MIT Process Handbook (MIT Press, 2003).  Before
joining the MIT faculty in 1983, Malone was a research scientist at the
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where his research involved
designing educational software and office information systems.  His
background includes a Ph.D. and two master's degrees from Stanford
University, a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Rice University, and degrees
in applied mathematics, engineering-economic systems, and psychology.

 5pm: Panel Discussion with Tom Malone (immediately following the talk)
      Building successful interdisciplinary relationships
      Larry Davis, Chair Computer Science
      Jennifer Preece, Dean iSchool
      Vibha Sazawal, Computer Science
      Ken Fleischman, iSchool
      Ben Shneiderman, Computer Science (Moderator)







































Thomas W. Malone will be giving a talk today Monday,November 3, 2008 -
CSIC Building - Room 1115 at 4:00pm Reception will be held at the CSIC
Lobby before the talk at 3:30 p.m.







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