Systems Socioscience Salon

6 November 2003

 

Host:  Bob Metcalfe ~ bmetcalfe@polarisventures.com

Organizer:  Joost Bonsen ~ jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

Sponsor:  Polaris Venture Partners ~ http://www.polarisventures.com/

 

(Participant List Below)

 

 

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SocioSalon Participants

 

Sinan

Aral

Graduate Researcher

Sloan

Scalable Virtual Organizations

http://web.mit.edu/sinana/www/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan

Ariely

Associate Professor

Sloan / Media Lab

eRationality / Behavioral Psychology & Economics

http://web.mit.edu/ariely/www/

 

Yaneer

Bar-Yam

President

NECSI

Complex Systems

http://www.necsi.org/faculty/bar-yam.html

 

Tim

Berners-Lee

Senior Research Scientist

CSAIL / W3C

Global Web Connectivity

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

 

Joost

Bonsen

Salon Organizer & Student

Sloan

Innovation Dynamics

http://web.media.mit.edu/~jpbonsen/

 

Rick

Borovoy

Co-founder / CTO

nTag

Smart Namebadges

http://ntag.com/

 

Dan

Bricklin

Co-founder / CTO

Trellix

Personal Leverage Tools

http://danbricklin.com/log/

http://www.bricklin.com/default.htm

 

Rod

Brooks

Professor & Lab Director

CSAIL / EECS

Living Machines

http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/index.shtml

 

Bob

Buderi

Editor

Technology Review

Innovation Systems & Elements

http://www.techreview.com

 

Tom

Cushman

Professor

Wellesley

Sociology & Media

http://www.wellesley.edu/Sociology/cushman.html

http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Profile/af/tcushman.html

Sanmay

Das

Graduate Researcher

EECS

Agent-based Financial Modelling

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2121720

 

Judith

Donath

Assistant Professor

Media Lab

Sociable Media

http://www.media.mit.edu/~judith

http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/

 

Joseph

Dumit

Assistant Professor

SHASS / Anthro / STS

Anthropological Interventions

http://symptom.mit.edu/dumit/

 

Nathan

Eagle

Research Assistant

Media Lab

Reality Mining

http://reality.media.mit.edu

 

George

Eberstadt

CEO & Founder

nTag

Social Network Enhancement

http://www.ntag.com/

 

Ian

Eslick

Research Affiliate

CSAIL / Media Lab

Common Sense Computing

http://commonsense.media.mit.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi

 

Jay

Forrester

Professor Emeritus

Sloan

System Dynamics

http://sloancf.mit.edu/vpf/facstaff.cfm?ID=42&ProfType=F&sortorder=name

 

Dan

Frey

Assistant Professor

MechE / ESD

Engineering Design

http://www-me.mit.edu/people/personal/danfrey.htm

 

Jerrold

Grochow

Vice President

IS & Technology

Systems Architecture & Operations

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2003/grochow.html

http://web.mit.edu/is/

 

Benjamin

Grosof

Assistant Professor

Sloan

IT & eCommerce

http://www.mit.edu/~bgrosof/home.html

 

Keith

Hampton

Assistant Professor

DUSP

Cyber Sociology

http://web.mit.edu/knh/www/

 

Roger

Hurwitz

Research Scientist

CSAIL

Intelligent Info Processing

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/home-page.html

 

David

Karger

Professor

CSAIL

Information Retrieval

http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~karger/

 

Karim

Lakhani

Doctoral Student

Sloan

OpenSource / User Innovation

http://opensource.mit.edu

http://spoudaiospaizen.net/

 

David

Lazer

Associate Professor

Harvard KSG

Computational Politics / Regulatory Policy

http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/degreeprog/courses.nsf/wzWebFaculty/Lazer218?Opendocument

 

Richard

Lester

Professor

IPC

Innovation Systems

http://web.mit.edu/ned/www/people/faculty/lester.html

http://web.mit.edu/ipc/www/index.html

 

Carl

Marci

Doctor

MGH

Social Neuroscience & Psychotherapy

http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/endowment/third.asp?page=research&page2=researcherbios

 

Martin

Martin

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Media Lab

Virtual Nightclub

http://www.metahuman.org/

 

Terry

McGuire

Managing General Partner

Polaris

Venture Capital, Medical & IT

http://www.polarisventures.com/

 

Bob

Metcalfe

Salon Host & Partner

Polaris

Venture Capital, Info & NanoTech

http://www.polarisventures.com/

 

Robyn

Metcalfe

Graduate Student

BU

Gastronomy

http://www.kelmscott.org/AboutUs/Welcome.cfm

 

Amir

Nashat

Principal 

Polaris

Venture Capital, Life Sciences

http://www.polarisventures.com/

 

Wanda

Orlikowski

Professor

Sloan

Organizational Impact of IT

http://ccs.mit.edu/wanda.html

 

Alex (Sandy)

Pentland

Professor

Media

Human Design / Digital Anthropology

http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_sandy.html

 

Roz

Picard

Associate Professor

Media Lab

Affective Computing

http://www.media.mit.edu/~picard

 

Dmitry

Repin

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Sloan LFE

Psychophysiology & Behavioral Finance

http://lfe.mit.edu/

 

Mitch

Resnick

Professor

Media Lab

Lifelong Learning & Modeling Emergence

http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/

 

Larry

Rudolph

Research Scientist

EECS / CSAIL

Multiscale System Representations

http://www.necsi.org/faculty/rudolph.html

 

Push

Sing

Research Assistant

Media Lab

OpenMind Commonsense

http://commonsense.media.mit.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi

 

John

Sterman

Professor

Sloan

Business Dynamics

http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www

 

Michael

Sung

Research Assistant

Media Lab

Physiometrics

http://web.media.mit.edu/~msung/

 

Sherry

Turkle

Professor

SHASS / STS

Technology & Self

http://web.mit.edu/~sturkle/techself/sherry.html

 

William

Uricchio

Professor

SHASS / CMS

Media Emergence, Culture & Identity

http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/uricchio.html

 

Eric

von Hippel

Professor

Sloan / MTIE

User Innovations, Toolkits, OpenSource

http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/

http://opensource.mit.edu/

 

Justin

Werfel

Graduate Researcher

EECS / CSAIL

Artificial Life & Evolving Self-Organization

http://hebb.mit.edu/people/jkwerfel/

 

Sanith

Wijesinghe

Post-Doctoral Researcher

OCW

Multiscale Modelling

http://web.mit.edu/sanith/www/home.html

 

Pat

Winston

Professor

EECS / CSAIL

Human Intelligence & Computational Politics

http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/phw/phw.html

http://dcg0.mit.edu/phw/newsview/