Sandy Pentland

In the real world of today, you can’t say, “It’s more of a computer science problem, so I’m going to bring in a computer scientist,” or “It’s more of an economy problem, so I’m going to bring in an economist.” You are expected to say, “Let’s look at the problem and let the problem dictate what needs to happen.” Then you go out and recruit whatever tools, knowledge, and people that you need to get the job done. That’s what I mean when I use the term anti-disciplinary.

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