Category Archives: Academic Research in CI

Collecive intelligence tools for supporting global cooperative work

Posted on December 13, 2009 by

The stellar line up of workshops at the upcoming ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work reflects the edge of CSCW research, with profound implications for the global-scale cooperative work needed to mach global challenges. Technically, it has become possible to connect … Continue reading →

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How well can collective self-reflexivity scale?

Posted on April 5, 2008 by

I woke up this morning 4 o’clock and not only because the jetlag. Yesterday was the first day of the first World Café Research Conference. Due to the delay of the flight from New York, I arrived late and when … Continue reading →

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CI through the “cognitive” lens, Pierre Lévy

Posted on January 27, 2008 by

“The expression ‘collective intelligence’ relates to an extensive body of knowledge and thoughts concerned with several objects that have been diversely labeled: distributed cognition, distributed knowledge systems, global brain, super-brain, global mind, group mind, ecology of mind, hive mind, learning … Continue reading →

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Research Assistant in Personal Knowledge Gardening and CI wanted

Posted on November 30, 2007 by

It’s not New Year yet but I already have a clear resolution that corresponds to a desire that has been ripening in my heart for the last couple of years. In 2008 and beyond, I will spend more time on … Continue reading →

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CI in the dialog between life sciences and management of organisations

Posted on May 19, 2007 by

The French chapter of the Society for Organizational Learning had conference on the “EMERGENCE OF COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: a dialog between Life Sciences and Management of organisations.” Its aim was to explore the state of the art in each of these … Continue reading →

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Who wants us to be afraid of collective intelligence?

Posted on October 25, 2006 by

Two vitrioloc attacks in three days, that’s how the conservative extremist of The Register welcomed MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence. On Oct. 11, Andrew Orlowksi wrote in his aerticle under the title “MIT opens Junk Science Institute:” “MIT’s Badger School … Continue reading →

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A milestone in the evolution of the CI field

Posted on October 14, 2006 by

A milestone in the evolution of the CI field occurred on October 13, 2006, when MIT launched its Center for Collective Intelligence, the first major academic center dedicated to our growing disciipline. The Center’s director, Thomas Malone, said, At CCI, … Continue reading →

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The Hyper-Cortex of Our Collective Intelligence

Posted on June 18, 2005 by

I’ve just discovered a fascinating paper on The Hyper-Cortex of Human Collective-Intelligence Systems (.pdf) by Marko Antonio Rodriguez, a Ph.D student at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the Center for Evolution, Complexity, and Cognition at Vrije Universiteit … Continue reading →

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Seminar on CI at the U. of Ottawa

Posted on July 19, 2004 by

Seminar on Collective Intelligence at the University of Ottawa,
8, 9, 10th of August, 2004
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Social learning theory can stabilize new peaks of CI

Posted on May 12, 2004 by

Social learning theory can stabilize new peaks of collective intelligence.
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