MIT Connection Science News
May 18, 2020

Events:

• AI-Driven Capitalism with Prof Sandy Pentland, May 20, 2020

New Research:

• “Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds“, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Abdullah Almaatouq, Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Abdulrahman Alotaibi, P. M. Krafft, Mehdi Moussaid, and Alex Pentland

• “Will the Crowd Game the Algorithm?: Using Layperson Judgments to Combat Misinformation on Social Media by Downranking Distrusted Sources, CHI ’20 Proceedings, Ziv Epstein, Gordon Pennycook, David Rand

• “Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle“, ScienceAdvances, Nuria Oliver, et al.

New Videos:

• Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland, TEDxMIT: (Re)Building the Economy.

• “Will the Crowd Game the Algorithm?” Zivvy Epstein