The Center for Collective Learning

Collective intelligence requires learning.

The Center for Collective Learning studies what makes teams, cities, and nations, smarter, prosperous, and inclusive. Our research focuses on economic complexity, digital democracy, human perception of technology, and on creative applications of artificial intelligence.

We are a team of highly motivated scientists, scholars, and entrepreneurs, interested in improving the ability of teams, cities, and nations, to learn.

We believe a better world is possible. A world that is more inclusive, creative, collaborative, & entrepreneurial, and that collective learning can help us move towards that world.

If you are interested in joining the Center for Collective Learning, please let us know by completing the following application form. If you want to get in touch, or support the center, send us an email at centerforcollectivelearning@gmail.com

Latest Publications

Featured Video

Professor Hidalgo presents How Humans Judge Machines at Google

Brief History

The Center for Collective Learning originated at MIT as the Collective Learning Group.

During the last decade, the Center for Collective Learning produced a number of accomplished graduates and postdocs who now work as professors, entrepreneurs, and engineers. The Center for Collective learning pioneered research on economic complexity, data visualization, collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, and applied artificial intelligence.

Today, the Center for Collective Learning is located at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Institute (ANITI) at the University of Toulouse.

The Center for Collective Learning is led Dr. César A. Hidalgo, ANITI Chair at the University Toulouse, Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester, and Visiting Professor at Harvard University.

Alumni of the Collective Learning Group include:

Daniel Smilkov (co-creator of TensorFlow.js at Google), Amy Yu (Product Strategy at Viacom), Elisa Castañer (Palantir), Shahar Ronen (Passbook, ex-Microsoft), Ambika Krishnamachar (Asaap, ex-Uber), Flavio Pinheiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Diana Orghian (University of Lisbon), Bogang Jun (Inha University), Kevin Hu (Co-Founder & CEO of Stealth), Cristian Candia (Data Science Institute, UDD), Sanjay Guruprasad (Co-Founder & CEO of Rune), Alexander Simoes (co-founder of Datawheel), and many more (see all Alumni here).

About Toulouse

Toulouse is one of the most beautiful, exciting, and friendly places you will ever visit. Located in the south of France, on the banks of the Garonne river, Toulouse is a high-tech university town that is home to about one million people. It has everything that someone would want from a big city, but in a compact urban form.