Alex Pentland

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Scholarly Papers (21)

1.

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

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Apr 2010
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
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)
Downloads 1,986 (14,274)
Citation 83

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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)
Downloads 796 (54,417)
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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
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
Technical University of Denmark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Media LabCIVICS.com Consultancy, Technical University of Denmark and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 585 (80,885)
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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
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
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
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
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
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
MIT - Media Laboratory, MIT - Media Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 246 (213,642)
Citation 1

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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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Univesrity of Cologne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Cologne
Downloads 167 (304,220)
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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
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
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
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