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The ILS lecture Series at Dominican University hosts Alex Pentland

Free and Open to the Public - Priority seating with book purchase
Doors open at 6:00 pm
If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled remarkable discoveries significant enough to become the bedrock of a whole new scientific field: social physics. Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons From a New Science ($27.95) will change the way we think about how we learn and how our social groups work. 

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