[Colloquium] FRIDAY Sandy Pentland: Computational Social Sciences Distinguished Lecture

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    Computational Social Sciences Initiative: Distinguished Lecture

**Speaker: Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
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Spring Lecture*: *http://bit.ly/1E631SN*

*When*: Friday, May 15th, 2015 at 4pm

*Where*: Main Dining Hall of the Quadrangle Club

Alex `Sandy’ Pentland has helped create and direct MIT’s Media Lab, the 
Media Lab Asia, and the Center for Future Health.  He chairs the World 
Economic Forum's Data Driven Development council, is Academic Director 
of the Data-Pop Alliance, and is a member of the Advisory Boards for 
Google, Nissan, Telefonica, the United Nations Secretary General, 
Monument Capital, and the Minerva Schools.

In 2012 Forbes named Sandy one of the 'seven most powerful data 
scientists in the world’, along with Google founders and the CTO of the 
United States, and in 2013 he won the McKinsey Award from Harvard 
Business Review.  He is among the most-cited computational scientists in 
the world, and a pioneer in computational social science, organizational 
engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and 
modern biometrics. His research has been featured in Nature, Science, 
and Harvard Business Review, as well as being the focus of TV features 
on BBC World, Discover and Science channels.  His most recent book is 
`Social Physics,' published by Penguin Press.
Title: "Shaping Intelligence"

*Abstract*: Using custom-built sensors, mobile phone software, and 
on-line financial markets, we have been able to make novel measurements 
of how the pattern of fine-grained interpersonal interaction shapes 
human performance from in situations ranging from individuals, to small 
groups, to divisions of companies, to millions of on-line day traders.  
Analysis of this novel data suggests that the pattern of social 
interaction, separate from the content, is a major determinant of 
individual and group performance.

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