The CCI was founded to study how new communications technologies are changing the way people work together.  In particular, it is studying the various ways that groups of people are now. To answer these questions they conducted two separate studies.  collaborating via the Internet, in order to understand how to best. MORE >>

Get email updates: Feelings Beat Thoughts For Fast Complex Decisions. These are complex decisions in which time is short. new study by Mikels et al. Across multiple studies they gave people a series of complex decisions including choosing between cars, apartments, vacations, physicians and treatments. PsyBlog. MORE >>

Self-organizing, open communities are now well accepted as a production model for complex initiatives with major societal benefits, -  like trust frameworks.  Our Web searches  and sites visited, including our likes and dislikes and purchase histories.  I just joined its Board of Directors. The list continues to grow.” . MORE >>

Most people think that big data is about what people do online, like posts on Facebook or searches on Google.  Pentland disagrees, because what people post in social media sites or what they search for on the Web is relatively transient information that changes from day to day if not week to week.  But, what do we mean by big data ?  MORE >>

Lauren Brent is a primatologist and evolutionary biologist who has spent years studying social bonds — particularly friendship — with an eye to learning how and why those behaviors evolved. We talked to her just after she rehearsed for her TED@New York talk , one of the 13 events in our 2013 talent search. MORE >>