Alex Pentland

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Productivity Through Coffee Breaks: Changing Social Networks by Changing Break Structure

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Apr 2010
Benjamin N. Waber, Daniel Olguin Olguin, Taemie Kim and Alex Pentland
MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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social networks, reality mining, kith, productivity

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Mining Face-to-Face Interaction Networks using Sociometric Badges: Predicting Productivity in an IT Configuration Task

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 08 May 2008
Lynn Wu, Benjamin N. Waber, Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Alex Pentland
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, MIT - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Social Networks, Face-to-Face Communication, Information Worker, Productivity

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Competition between AI Foundation Models: Dynamics and Policy Recommendations

MIT Connection Science Working Paper 1-2003
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Jul 2023
Thibault Schrepel and Alex Pentland
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Foundation AI, large language models, LLMs, generative AI, competition, antitrust, increasing returns, network effects, intellectual property, public policy, ChatGPT, Google Bard, open source

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Thin Slices of Negotiation: Predicting Outcomes from Conversational Dynamics Within the First Five Minutes

Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 92, pp. 802-811, 2007
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2008
Jared R. Curhan and Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Negotiation, thin slices, conversational dynamics, speech features, nonverbal, communication, artificial intelligence

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Sociometric Badges: A New Tool for I.S. Research

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 22 Mar 2011
Benjamin N. Waber, Sinan Aral, Daniel Olguin Olguin, Lynn Wu, Erik Brynjolfsson and Alex Pentland
MIT - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, MIT - Media Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Privacy for Personal Neuroinformatics

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Apr 2014
Arkadiusz Stopczynski, Dazza Greenwood, Dazza Greenwood, Lars Hansen and Alex Pentland
Technical University of Denmark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Media LabCIVICS.com Consultancy, Technical University of Denmark and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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legal, technical, business, neurological, privacy, policy, personal informatics

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Understanding Organizational Behavior with Wearable Sensing Technology

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Sep 2008
Benjamin N. Waber, Daniel Olguin Olguin, Taemie Kim and Alex Pentland
MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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sensors, organizational behavior, consistency, social networks, accelerometer, microphone

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Organizational Engineering Using Sociometric Badges

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 16 Dec 2007
Benjamin N. Waber, Daniel Olguin Olguin, Taemie Kim, Akshay Mohan, Koji Ara and Alex Pentland
MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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social networks, wearable computing, job satisfaction

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Differences between Dynamic Face-to-Face and E-Mail Networks: Implications for New Forms of Collaboration

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Apr 2010
Benjamin N. Waber and Alex Pentland
MIT - Media Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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social networks, job satisfaction, kith, reality mining, sensors

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Studying Microscopic Peer-to-Peer Communication Patterns

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Feb 2008
Peter A. Gloor, Daniel Oster, Johannes Putzke, Kai Fischbach, Detlef Schoder, Koji Ara, Taemie Kim, Robert Laubacher, Akshay Mohan, Daniel Olguin Olguin, Alex Pentland and Benjamin N. Waber
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Univesrity of Cologne, University of Cologne, University of Cologne, University of Cologne, affiliation not provided to SSRN, MIT - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Collective Intelligence, affiliation not provided to SSRN, MIT - Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MIT - Media Laboratory
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social networks, social badges, organizational behavior, communication flow, network structure

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Turkers of the World Unite: Multilevel In-Group Bias Amongst Crowdworkers on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2019
Abdullah Almaatouq, Peter Krafft, Yarrow Dunham, David G. Rand and Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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In-Group, Dictator Game, Economic Games, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Crowdworkers, Behavioral Economics

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Promoting Physical Activity Through Prosocial Incentives on Mobile Platforms

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2022
Yuan Yuan, Christos Nicolaides, Alex Pentland and Dean Eckles
Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr School of Business, Purdue University, School of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MIT Sloan School of Management
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mobile health, prosocial behavior, warm glow giving

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Augmented Social Reality

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 24 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2011
Benjamin N. Waber, Daniel Olguin Olguin and Alex Pentland
MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Social networks, intervention systems, wearable computing

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Time for a New Antitrust Era: Refocusing Antitrust Law to Invigorate Competition in the 21st Century

Stanford Computational Antitrust (Vol. 1) 2021
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Robert Mahari, Sandro Claudio Lera and Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Human Dynamics Group, MIT Connection Science and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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computational antitrust, antitrust, computational law, artificial intelligence, algorithms, machine learning, mergers, CODEX, Stanford

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The Virtual Mirror - Reflecting on Social and Psychological Self to Increase Organizational Creativity

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Jan 2009
Peter A. Gloor, Daniel Oster, Ornit Raz, Alex Pentland and Detlef Schoder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Univesrity of Cologne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Cologne
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group creativity, social network analysis, social badges, FFI

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Data Cooperatives as Catalysts for Collaboration, Data Sharing, and the (Trans)Formation of the Digital Commons

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Aug 2023
Michael Max Bühler, Igor Calzada, Igor Calzada, Isabel Cane, Thorsten Jelinek, Astha Kapoor, Morshed Mannan, Sameer Mehta, Marina Micheli, Vijay Mookerjee, Konrad Nübel, Alex Pentland, Trebor R Scholz, Divya Siddarth, Julian Tait, Bapu Vaitla and Jianguo Zhu
Konstanz University of Applied Science, Cardiff University, WISERD (Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research and Data), Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), University of Cambridge, Aapti Institute, European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, European Union - Joint Research Center, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, Technical University Munich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The New School, Collective Intelligence Project, Open Data Manchester, Data2X and The University of Sydney
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data sovereignty, data cooperatives, digital rights, platform cooperatives, digital commons

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Transparency by Design for Large Language Models

Computational Legal Futures, Network Law Review. (2023)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 07 Aug 2023
Tobin South, Robert Mahari and Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - MIT Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Human Dynamics Group and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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large language models, NLP, GDPR, compliance, NLP, information retrieval

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Unlocking the Power of Digital Commons: Data Cooperatives as a Pathway for Data Sovereign, Innovative and Equitable Digital Communities

Bühler, M.M.; Calzada, I.; Cane, I.; Jelinek, T.; Kapoor, A.; Mannan, M.; Mehta, S.; Mookerje, V.; Nübel, K.; Pentland, A.; et al. Unlocking the Power of Digital Commons: Data Cooperatives as a Pathway for Data Sovereign, Innovative and Equitable Digital Communities. Digital 2023, 3, 146–171. https:
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Oct 2023
Michael Max Bühler, Igor Calzada, Igor Calzada, Isabel Cane, Thorsten Jelinek, Astha Kapoor, Morshed Mannan, Sameer Mehta, Vijay Mookerjee, Konrad Nübel, Alex Pentland, Trebor R Scholz, Divya Siddarth, Julian Tait, Bapu Vaitla and Jianguo Zhu
Konstanz University of Applied Science, Cardiff University, WISERD (Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research and Data), Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), University of Cambridge, Aapti Institute, European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, Technical University Munich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The New School, Collective Intelligence Project, Open Data Manchester, Data2X and The University of Sydney
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data, cooperatives, open data, data stewardship, data governance, digital commons, data sovereignty, open digital federation platform

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Harnessing Digital Federation Platforms and Data Cooperatives to Empower SMEs and Local Communities

(2023). TF-2: Our Common Digital Future: Affordable, Accessible, and Inclusive Digital Public Infrastructure. G20/T20 Policy Brief.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 18 Oct 2023
Igor Calzada, Igor Calzada, Michael Max Bühler, Isabel Cane, Thorsten Jelinek, Astha Kapoor, Morshed Mannan, Sameer Mehta, Vijay Mookerjee, Konrad Nübel, Alex Pentland, Trebor R Scholz, Divya Siddarth, Julian Tait and Bapu Vaitla
Cardiff University, WISERD (Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research and Data), Konstanz University of Applied Science, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), University of Cambridge, Aapti Institute, European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management, Technical University Munich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The New School, Collective Intelligence Project, Open Data Manchester and Data2X
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data cooperatives, platform cooperatives, digital commons, local communities, open commons, open data, data sovereignty, digital rights

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Toward a Public-Key Management Framework for Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers

Electronic version of an article published as [The Journal of FinTech, Volume 1, Number 1, 2021, 27 pages] [https://doi.org/10.1142/S2705109920500017] © [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company]
Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Thomas Hardjono, Alex Lipton and Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Virtual asset, virtual asset service provider, blockchain, public-keycerticates, key management

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Legal Dynamism

Computational Legal Futures, Network Law Review. (2022)
Number of pages: 4
Robert Mahari and Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Human Dynamics Group and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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legal dynamism, computational law, regulatory design