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Alex Pentland

social physics; reality-mining feedback systems.

Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland is an American computer scientist, HAI Fellow at Stanford, Toshiba Professor at MIT, and serial entrepreneur.

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Sources by Alex Pentland

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Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World
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Albert-László Barabási
scale-free networks; Linked.
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Alicia Juarrero
Dynamics in Action; constraints and complex causality.
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Barry Richmond
Stella software; systems thinking pedagogy.
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Benoit Mandelbrot
fractals; fat-tailed finance.
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Brian Arthur
increasing returns; complexity economics.
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Brian Walker
resilience thinking.
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Buckminster Fuller
synergetics; Spaceship Earth; tensegrity.
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C. West Churchman
systems approach; design of inquiring systems.
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10 May 2026
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