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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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Collective Intelligence 2014

MIT, Cambridge, MA

June 10-12, 2014

www.collectiveintelligence2014.org

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This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• human computation

• social computing

• crowdsourcing

• wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)

• group memory and extended cognition

• collective decision making and problem-solving

• participatory and deliberative democracy

• animal collective behavior

• organizational design

• public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform)

• ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., "digital sweatshops")

• computational models of group search and optimization

• emergence and evolution of intelligence

• new technologies for making groups smarter

CONFERENCE FORMAT

The conference will consist of

• Invited talks from prominent researchers in different areas related to collective intelligence including:

• Linda Argote, Organizational Behavior and Theory @ Carnegie Mellon

• Emily Falk, Communications @ University of Pennsylvania

• Henry Farrell, Political Science and International Affairs @ George Washington

• David Gibson, Sociology @ Notre Dame

• Niki Kittur, Human Computer Interaction Institute @ Carnegie Mellon

• Jens Krause, Biology and Ecology of Fish @ Humboldt University Berlin

• Karim Lakhani, Business Administration @ Harvard

• Helene Landemore, Political Science @ Yale

• Naomi Leonard, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering @ Princeton

• Jason Matheny, Open Source Indicators Program

• David Mendonca, Industrial and Systems Engineering @ RPI

• Barbara Mellers, Psychology @ University of Pennsylvania

• Radhika Nagpal, Computer Science @ Harvard

• Beth Noveck, Wagner School of Public Service @ NYU, Founder & Director of the Governance Lab

• Van Parunak, Chief Scientist @ Soar Technology

• Stephen Pratt, School of Life Sciences @ Arizona State

• Betsy Sparrow, Psychology @ Columbia

• Kate Starbird, Human Centered Design & Engineering @ University of Washington

• Lyle Ungar, Computer & Information Science @ University of Pennsylvania

• Luis von Ahn, Computer Science @ Carnegie Mellon, Founder of reCAPTCHA & duolingo

IMPORTANT DATES

• Early Registration Deadline: April 15, 2014
• Matching Making Ignite Session Application Deadline: April 30, 2014
• Hotel Reservations Deadline: May 10, 2014
• Registration Deadline: June 1, 2014
• Conference dates:  June 10-12, 2014

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research)

Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)

GENERAL CHAIRS

Jeffrey Nickerson (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Thomas Malone (MIT)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Lada Adamic (Facebook, University of Michigan)

Christopher Chabris (Union College)

Iain Couzin (Princeton)

Winter Mason (Stevens Institute of Technology, Facebook)

Beth Noveck (NYU)

Scott Page (University of Michigan)

Paul Resnick (University of Michigan)

Matthew Salganik (Princeton, Microsoft Research)

Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University)

Anita Woolley (CMU)

COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR

Elizabeth Gerber (Northwestern)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIRS

Seyda Ertekin (MIT)

Lawrence Abeln (MIT)

PROCEEDINGS CHAIRS