Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Prof. Pentland to outline his ideas and thoughts on the topic for the first event of the online series Sydney Pacific Presidential Lectures.
With each major crisis, be it pandemic, war, or major new technology, there has been the need to reinvent our society.
LocationTown Hall Seattle, WA Description
LocationThe Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum DescriptionTREK TALK Alex “Sandy” Pentland presents The Genesis of Wearable TechnologyPro...
LocationAngelico Hall, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA Description
LocationBartos Theater, MIT Building E15 Description
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Watch: Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland and Consumer Reports Digital Lab co-hosted a virtual event to discuss an early draft of a Data Rights Protocol.
MIT Industrial Liaison Program with professors Yossi Sheffi, Alex Pentland, and Andrew Lo to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on business.
Thibault Schrepel discusses a new paper on roads to improve antitrust law with co-authors from the Human Dynamics group.
Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks during a TEDxMIT event about how distributed data technologies can help community social structures.
The first MIT Computational Law report features an essay by Sandy Pentland, head of the Human Dynamics group.
What anonymized geolocation data can tell us about the effectiveness of social distancingThe World Health Organization has officially dec...
“In a resilient economy, power and decision-making should be distributed among a diverse set of stakeholders."
Ramesh Raskar and Sandy Pentland present approaches and projects related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease,...
LocationMIT Museum DescriptionWhen big data meets social science: social physics, collective intelligence, and more!From Google to the NS...
Recognizing individuals who already achieved several lifetimes’ worth of breakthroughs, founding, or funding new innovations and industries
Even when real names and other personal information are stripped from metadata datasets, it is often possible to use just a few pieces of...
bandicoot provides a complete, easy-to-use environment for researchers using mobile phone metadata. It allows them to easily load their d...
Speakers include Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, alum Nuria Oliver, and many more. Watch live or on demand.
LocationMIT Kresge Auditorium Description
LocationDigital Catapult Centre, London DescriptionOn Monday 19th January, the Digital Catapult Centre welcomes one of the “world’s seven...
LocationMIT, Room 34-101 Description
LocationBoston, MA Description
LocationDisney's Yacht & Beach Club® Convention Center, Orlando, FL Description
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
The promise and reality of AI to change how we build and operate companies and societies are significant. However, if unchecked and ungov...
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMetadata, the breadcrumbs inadvertently left behind by technology, give us unprecedented perspe...
LocationMIT (E51-376) DescriptionMore details and registration at:http://www.necsi.edu/events/upcomingevents.html
LocationHarvard University Description
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis talk is open to the public and will be webcast live. For the last decade, Sandy Pentland's...
LocationSan Diego, CA Description
Kevin Esvelt, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro, Sandy Pentland, Beth Porter, Ron Rivest, and Ramesh Raskar will each present a short talk.
We extend previous studies on the impact of masks on COVID-19 outcomes by investigating an unprecedented breadth and depth of health outc...
AI Systems Management and Next-gen CybersecurityIntegrating AI capabilities in your organization can be costly, often fails, and comes wi...
In a world where sensors, data storage, and processing power are too cheap to meter, how do you ensure that users can realize the full va...
Sandy Pentland explains the single activity that characterizes creative workplace—and it's probably something that you love doing.
Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from auto...
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...
In this project we seek to combine data sources to understand the effect of the shock of COVID-19 as well as the recovery dynamics. ...
Mobile phones are one of the fastest growing technologies in the developing world with global penetration rates reaching 90%. Mobile phon...
Study cautions against using static org charts during COVID-19 crisis.
Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and ...
LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theatre (E15, Lower Level) DescriptionThe goal of this thesis is to show that social support created throug...
Saturday April 4, 2020 ...
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The mission of the Media Lab’...
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
Professor Pentland explains the single activity that characterixes creative workplace—and it's probably something that you love doing.