Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change

Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He was also the founding director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on “Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century”. Professor Malone teaches classes on leadership and information technology, and his research focuses on how new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology.

Mark Klein is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Center for Collective Intelligence, and an Affiliate at the Computer Science and AI Lab as well the New England Complex Systems Institute. He also co-directs the Robust Open Multi-Agent Systems (ROMA) research group. His research is aimed at enabling more effective coordination in distributed systems with humans and/or computer-based agents.