23 AUGUST 2021 (Monday) | KEYNOTE - 1
A Science Whose Time Has Come
Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland
ABSTRACT
With the advent of ubiquitous digital data and advances in statistical methods, we can begin to understand human behavior with a precision and completeness that was unexpected even 20 years ago. This new Computational Social Science (Lazer, Pentland, et al 2010) begins with traditional insights about human behavior and not only quantifies and contextualizes the characteristics of individual humans, but illuminates and quantifies the tremendously important influence of networks. I will outline the evolution of this new science over the last decade and how it has deeply altered and extended our understanding of economics, health, governance, development, and innovation.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
MIT Prof. Alex Pentland is Board member for the UN Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data, and previously companies such as Google, AT&T, and a variety of startups, and has co-led the World Economic Forum and World Leaders Alliance discussions around data, AI, law, and digital systems. He was co-creator of the MIT Media Lab and founder of the MIT Connection Science initiative. He has an h-index of 144 and is member of the US National Academies.
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