Peter A. Gloor Research Scientist, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT's Sloan School of Management Peter A. Gloor is a Research Scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he leads a twenty-year project exploring Collaborative Innovation Networks. He is also Founder and Chief Creative Officer of software company galaxyadvisors, and Honorary Professor at University of Cologne, and at Jilin University, Changchun, China. He also taught at Universidad Cattolica in Santiago de Chile, Aalto University Helsinki, University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and University of Applied Sciences Lucerne (HSLU). Earlier he was a partner with Deloitte and PwC, and a manager at UBS. He got his Ph.D in computer science from the University of Zurich and was a Post-Doc at the MIT Lab for Computer Science. He has written or co-edited fifteen books, his newest book “Happimetrics – Leveraging AI to Untangle the Surprising Link Between Ethics, Happiness and Business Success” will appear October 2022 at Edward Elgar Publishing. In his spare time Peter likes to talk with his plants, play the piano, and hike and ski in the mountains. He blogs at swarmcreativity.blogspot.com.Home page: cci.mit.edu/pgloor Papers / Presentations: Happimetrics: Leveraging AI to Untangle the Surprising Link Between Ethics, Happiness and Business Success (2022) Participant In: Coding and the New Human Phenotype October 15-16, 2022 Past Event From the level of DNA to that of phenotype, life may be viewed as an articulation of code. Within such a model, phenotypes are a kind of abstraction of the DNA code. Starting with the genome, the DNA winds its way through RNA, proteins, and cellular process outward into the world beyond, and in the… read more » Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction – the Parcellation of What Isn’t There October 15, 2022 at 4:00pm EST Past Event Watch the video » The humanities deal with the manipulation of ideas. Ideas can be encoded, metabolized, and contribute to cultural evolution. What roles do cultural memes – be they fact, factoid, or fiction – play in what goes on. Does fiction provide any insight into this complex dynamic?
Coding and the New Human Phenotype October 15-16, 2022 Past Event From the level of DNA to that of phenotype, life may be viewed as an articulation of code. Within such a model, phenotypes are a kind of abstraction of the DNA code. Starting with the genome, the DNA winds its way through RNA, proteins, and cellular process outward into the world beyond, and in the… read more »
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction – the Parcellation of What Isn’t There October 15, 2022 at 4:00pm EST Past Event Watch the video » The humanities deal with the manipulation of ideas. Ideas can be encoded, metabolized, and contribute to cultural evolution. What roles do cultural memes – be they fact, factoid, or fiction – play in what goes on. Does fiction provide any insight into this complex dynamic?