Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

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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MIT Industrial Liaison Program with professors Yossi Sheffi, Alex Pentland, and Andrew Lo to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on business.

Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.

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."

Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease,...

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...

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionWhen big data meets social science: social physics, collective intelligence, and more!From Google to the NS...

Speakers include Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, alum Nuria Oliver, and many more. Watch live or on demand.

Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.

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

Kevin Esvelt, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro, Sandy Pentland, Beth Porter, Ron Rivest, and Ramesh Raskar will each present a short talk.

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

Sandy Pentland explains the single activity that characterizes creative workplace—and it's probably something that you love doing.

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...

Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from auto...

Study cautions against using static org charts during COVID-19 crisis.

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...

Mobile phones are one of the fastest growing technologies in the developing world with global penetration rates reaching 90%. Mobile phon...

Saturday April 4, 2020 ...

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...

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.

We present Open Badges, an open-source framework and toolkit for measuring and shaping face-to-face social interactions using either cust...

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The mission of the Media Lab’...

Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the...

We believe that the narrative of only listening to experts or trusting the wisdom of the crowd blindly is flawed. Instead we have develop...

Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual'...

The recent availability of quantitative behavioral data provides an opportunity to study human behavior at unprecedented scale. Using lar...

Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research group...