Mike Stopforth

Jerry Bowles points to the launch of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, a “new research center whose goal to understand how to harness the power of large numbers of people—connected together through Internet and other technologies —to better solve a range of business, scientific, and societal problems.”

From the Center’s homepage:

While people have talked about collective intelligence for decades, new communication technologies—especially the Internet—now allow huge numbers of people all over the planet to work together in new ways. The recent successes of systems like Google and Wikipedia suggest that the time is now ripe for many more such systems, and the goal of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is to understand how to take advantage of these possibilities.

Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?

With MIT’s revolutionary approach to sharing research and course material online - OpenCourseWare (which means you don’t have to be enrolled as a student at MIT to access their intellectual property) - I’m really looking forward to the content they’ll be producing.

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