Executive Director
CurrentStephen serves as The Executive Director of the Connection Science and Human Dynamics programs at MIT. He has responsibility for managing a group of faculty, staff and students in creating an innovation-centric culture, to produce great research. He handles the front of the house, as an interface to external stakeholders and the public to increases awareness of, and engagement in, our programs, initiatives, and projects. The MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics programs includes a portfolio of three individual initiatives; the “Social Physics Consortium”, “Living Labs”, and the “Trust :: Data Consortium. It also includes 13 individual field projects in Andorra, Italy, Istanbul, Beijing, and Bogota, software development for “Enigma”, “CoreID”, and OPAL, as well as projects in computational law, digital governance, social commerce, and, innovation.About the Connection Science ProgramThe internationally-acclaimed MIT Connection Science program gives organizations hands-on experience and open-source software/hardware that enables your use of the world’s most advanced and data acquisition and analysis techniques.About the Human Dynamics Program:The Human Dynamics program at the MIT Media Laboratories pioneered the idea of a society enabled by Big Data. The Lab has developed technologies such as reality mining, which uses mobile phone data to extract patterns that predict future human behavior, a `nervous system’ framework for dramatically more efficient transportation, health, energy, and financial systems, the New Deal on Data policies which are now enshrined in the US Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, and a Trust Network communication architecture that ensures that this new data driven society is secure and fair.
