A couple of friends have linked to a recent Computerworld article about some new applications in HP of the work Bernardo Huberman and his team are doing.: “Who’s the smartest of them all?”



I heard Huberman speak last year at the Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks. He talked about harnessing “collective” knowledge and the games he’s devised to collect individual knowledge. These ideas have also been taken up by James Surowiecki, in The Wisdom of Crowds.

I was thinking on Friday about the conversation at the KM Cluster, and in general about events that draw on the wisdom of the audience as much as (or more) than that of the presenters. A good event makes all the wisdom in the room available and accessible. I’m designing a MasterClass in Social Network Analysis and this is one of my guiding principles.