This week MIT is initiating the Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) a project to leverage new communication technologies that facilitate very wide involvement in collective problem solving and information sharing. The official online launch date is Oct. 13, 2006. If the project is successful, it will certainly add to the educational resources available to students and teachers. One research focus of CCI is "How can we create an on-line, searchable library of books from many languages and historical eras? For instance, how can we harness a combination of human and machine intelligence to recognize the images of words in these books?" (Thanks to Campus Technology for this news item.)_____JH
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"While people have talked about collective intelligence for decades, new communication technologies—especially the Internet—now allow huge numbers of people all over the planet to work together in new ways. The recent successes of systems like Google and Wikipedia suggest that the time is now ripe for many more such systems, and the goal of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is to understand how to take advantage of these possibilities.
Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?
With its combination of expertise in computer science, brain sciences, and management, MIT is uniquely suited to address this question. We hope this work will lead to new scientific understanding in a variety of disciplines and practical advances in many areas of business and society."
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