MIT Connection Science
Working to revolutionize technology-mediated human networks through analysis,
prediction, data-driven design, and evaluation.
Web 3.0
New “web 3.0” technologies….a combination of blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), digital identity, Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAOs), Smart Contracts, DeFi, Non-Fungible Tokens and distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI)…are creating enormous new opportunities for virtually every digital domain.
Generative AI
Our work in this quickly growing and changing technology centers on who owns the data and its quality, how communities can work together to learn from each other without sharing private data, and how business and government services can be improved for individuals and communities without endangering privacy or agency.
Information & Democracy
Our team is working on understanding ways to help people better verify information, understand human behaviors around sharing and being influenced by misinformation, and what approaches are effective in countering partisan animosity which prevents constructive democratic dialogue and participation.
MIT Connection Science is a world-wide alliance of progressive companies, nations, and
multilateral organizations seeking to understand how to create data, analytical, and digital network systems that can improve the world.
The Connection Science alliance implements and deploys systems that achieve goals such as, increasing privacy, trust, and security in data systems, measuring the social impact of commercial and government activity, and incentivizing effective and ethical behavior change. Fields of activity include fintech, insuretech, govtech, healthcare, personal tech, telecom, and investment. Our activities have resulted in dozens of companies that today serve hundreds of millions of people, and had major influence on regulation.
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LEADERSHIP
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Alex “Sandy” Pentland
Alex “Sandy” Pentland is founding faculty director of the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative, which uses network science to access and change real-world human behavior. He is a Stanford HAI… Read More
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Hossein Rahnama
Hossein Rahnama is a computer scientist and an academic entrepreneur. As a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab and professor at Ryerson University, where he co-founded Ryerson DMZ, his… Read More
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John Werner
Innovation is the disciplined creation of new knowledge. At MIT, we believe that innovation occurs more frequently when individuals from diverse disciplines connect in new ways to help create the… Read More
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Thomas Hardjono
Thomas Hardjono is the CTO of Connection Science and Engineering. He leads technical projects and initiatives around identity, security and data privacy, and engages industry partners and sponsors on these… Read More