Category Archives: Academic Research in CI

Issue paper for the workshop on Collective Intelligence for the Common Good (CI4CG)

Posted on September 25, 2014 by George Pór

“The notion of the common good is a denial that society is and should be composed of atomized individuals living in isolation from one another.” (Encyclopedia Britannica) The workshop hosted by the Open University on September 29-30, 2014 is aimed … Continue reading →

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The Evidence Hub: Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of Communities to Build Evidence-Based Knowledge

Posted on April 26, 2014 by George Pór

“Conventional document and discussion websites provide users with no help in assessing the quality or quantity of evidence behind any given idea. Besides, the very meaning of what evidence is may not be unequivocally defined within a community, and may require deep … Continue reading →

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Return to Eden? Promises and Perils on the Road to an Omnipotent Global Intelligence

Posted on September 14, 2013 by George Pór

New paper by Francis Heylighen. Global Brain Institute Abstract: The concept of Singularity envisages a technology-driven explosion in intelligence. This paper argues that the resulting suprahuman intelligence will not be centralized in a single AI system, but distributed across all people … Continue reading →

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Announcing a CI conference at MIT, April 18-20, 2012

Posted on February 25, 2012 by George Pór

The conference description is presented here. Presentations Visualizing collective discursive user interactions in online life science communities Dhiraj Murthy, Alexander Gross, and Stephanie Bond  

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Collecive intelligence tools for supporting global cooperative work

Posted on December 13, 2009 by George Pór

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 George Pór

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 George Pór

“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 George Pór

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 George Pór

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 George Pór

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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