Pioneer in "big data", social networks and mobile information systems. Founding Advisory Board Member: Google; ATT, UN Secretary General Office. Director, MIT Human Dynamics and Trust Data Programs. One of the most cited computational scientists in the world. Winner: 40th Anniversary of the Internet Grand Challenge (2010); Harvard Business Review Paper of the Year (2012). Named: one of most powerful data scientists in the world, Forbes (2012).

Latest Articles

Digital Economy and Society

How to prepare for the cyberattack that is coming to your company

How the top exercises that simulate cybersecurity events and their fallout in real time can be useful for the future cyber attacks prevention?

30 Nov 2016

Cybersecurity

Who should we trust to manage our data?

Everywhere in the world, and for thousands of years, our societies have been run by bureaucracies that implement a set of rules. Of course the bureaucracies’ execution of the rules is oft...

23 Oct 2015

Digital Economy and Society

Video: Digital rights and wrongs

“You should have the same rights and obligations in your digital self as you have in your physical self. You should control information about you, who gets it, and what they do with it. Y...

06 Dec 2013

Hyperconnectivity

What big data can do for the poor

Recently the news has been full of stories about the potential for “big data” to redefine the ways in which businesses, governments and individuals can all relate to one another. While th...

20 Jun 2013

Hyperconnectivity

Data-driven societies

Alex “Sandy” Pentland is Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts and Sciences, at MIT, discusses how Data is shaping all aspects of society. Back in the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spurred...

21 Jan 2013

Data to decisions

We are at the beginning of the Big Data era, and there is widespread anticipation that this will be a huge benefit to companies. A recent MIT report shows that companies that practice “da...

08 Feb 2012