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Looking beyond smart cities
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Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating technology for social change
Transforming data into knowledge
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Tools and tactics for maximizing effective communication and decision-making while minimizing the spread of illness.
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Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.
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What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.
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Researchers detail a study's results to help determine how successfully newsrooms in five countries covered the shootings in New Zealand.
We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.
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We investigate the structure and dynamics of a network representative of the global trading market that emerged during the 16th century.
MIT Technology Review Article featuring LSM research
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