Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Mark Klein

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Mark Klein
Mark Klein

Dr. Mark Klein (cci.mit.edu/klein/) is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, and an Affiliate at the MIT Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL) as well as the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI). His research focuses on understanding the cross-cutting fundamentals of coordination and applying these insights to help create better human organizations and software systems. He has made contributions in the areas of computer-supported conflict management for collaborative design, design rationale capture, business process re-design, exception handling in workflow and multi-agent systems, service discovery, negotiation algorithms, understanding and resolving 'emergent' dysfunctions in distributed systems and, more recently, ‘collective intelligence' systems to help people collaboratively solve complex problems like global warming.

Achieving collective intelligence via large-scale argumentation

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The Book

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Derek Lomas

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Derek Lomas
Derek Lomas
Derek Lomas is a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interactions Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is researching the underpinnings of fun and learning within commercial video games and helping to develop new design processes for building effective computer-aided learning games.? Lomas is a co-founder of the Playpower Foundation, which recently received support from the MacArthur Foundation to further its goals of building affordable, effective and fun learning games to improve education around the world.? Lomas received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts from UC San Diego and his BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University.

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz

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Jason "JZ" Liszkiewicz
Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz

Jason Liszkiewicz (Re-Configure.org) was based in NYC but has moved to China. He's co-founder and Executive Director of the Earth Intelligence Network, and resource-contributor to OSS.Net. In 2006 he was labeled as a “one man think tank” by J-Lab, Maryland’s Institute for Interactive Journalism.

Producing Communities of Communication and Foreknowledge

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The Book

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Hassan Masum

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Hassan Masum
Hassan Masum

After postdoctoral research and stints with government, engineering firms, and the National Research Council of Canada, Hassan Masum is now Senior Research Co-ordinator with the McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health in Toronto and a contributor to WorldChanging.com. www.hmasum.com.

The Wealth of Networks: Highlights Remixed

Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon

Scaling up open problem solving