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Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1952) is an American computer scientist, the Toshiba Professor at MIT, and serial (entrepreneur ). He is one of the most cited authors in computer science,〔(most cited authors in computer science )〕 and helped create the MIT Media Lab. == Biography == Pentland received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and obtained his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. He started as lecturer at Stanford University in both computer science and psychology, and joined the MIT faculty in 1986, where he became Academic Head of the Media Laboratory and received the Toshiba Chair in Media Arts and Sciences. He co-leads both the Big Data and the Personal Data and Privacy initiatives of the World Economic Forum, serves on the boards of Telefónica, Motorola Mobility, and Nissan Motors, and previously co-founded and co-directed the Media Lab Asia laboratories at the Indian Institutes of Technology and Strong Hospital’s Center for Future Health He directs the MIT Human Dynamics Lab〔(Human Dynamics Lab )〕 which uses big data to better understand human society, the Institute for Data Driven Design which builds tools to protect individual privacy,〔(individual privacy )〕 and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program〔(MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program )〕 which creates ventures to take cutting edge technologies into the real world, with a special focus on promoting entrepreneurship in developing nations. He also serves as Academic Director of Data-Pop Alliance, a joint project on big data and human development co-created with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the Overseas Development Institute. In 2011 Forbes named him one of the world's seven most powerful data scientists〔(seven most powerful data scientists )〕 along with a founder of Google and the CTO of the United States. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Pentland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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