In next week's IAOCblog program, "The Virtual Mirror: Patterns in Collaboration," MIT researcher Peter Gloor will discuss the implications of a newly-released paper analyzing data of employee interactions gathered through sensors worn voluntarily by employees. You don't want to miss it. In the meantime, a little more about Peter Gloor.

Peter Gloor is a research scientist at the Center for Collective Intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's  Sloan School of Business Management. Gloor leads a project exploring "Collaborative Innovation Networks" or "COINs," and documents this work on two sites, the more formal Innovative Collaborative Knowledge Networks site and the less formal Swarm Creativity Blog.

You can understand the implications of Gloor's work a little better if I give an example. Gloor has designed software that makes the analysis of giant databases of employee interactions fairly easy. He analyzed over 1 million email records from Enron Corporation for evidence that the leaders of the company had knowledge of the fraudulent methods they were charged with. Interested in what he discovered?

Tune in next week for the start of This Week on IAOCblog.com's fall season with a session led by MIT's Peter Gloor.

STEVE O'KEEFE
Co-Producer, This Week on IAOCblog.com