Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. At MIT, he is also a Professor of Information Technology and a Professor of Work and Organizational Studies. Previously, he was the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding codirectors of the MIT Initiative on Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century. Malone teaches classes on organizational design, information technology, and leadership, and his research focuses on how new organizations can be designed to take advantage of the possibilities provided by information technology.
Malone predicted in an article published in 1987 many of the major developments in electronic business over the following 25 years, including electronic buying and selling for many kinds of products. In 2004, Malone summarized two decades of his research in his critically acclaimed book, The Future of Work. His newest book, Superminds, appeared in May 2018. Malone has also published over 100 articles, research papers, and book chapters. He is the coeditor of four books.
Malone has been a cofounder of four software companies and has consulted and served as a board member for a number of other organizations. He is also an inventor with 11 patents.
His background includes work as a research scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a PhD from Stanford University, an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich, and degrees in applied mathematics, engineering, and psychology.
The RoboAtlas: Mapping the Global Robotics Landscape
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ICRA 2026
2026
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Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Jiacheng Zhang (NUS), Shuo Sun (SMART), Vasiliki Charisi (SMART), Xinru Wang (SMART), Xinyue Chen (NUS), Zhexuan Ma (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Thomas W Malone (MIT)
Graphionale: How Graph Visualizations of LLM Rationales Affect HumanDecision Making
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UIST
2026
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Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Xinru Wang (SMART), Zhexuan Ma (NUS), Ming Yin (Purdue University), Shuai Ma (ISCAS), Thomas W Malone (MIT)
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Arxiv.org
2026
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Article
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Arxiv
Authors:
Alice Cai (MIT), Iman YeckehZaare (MIT), Shuo Sun (SMART), Vasiliki Charisi (SMART), Xinru Wang (SMART), Aiman Imran (MIT), Robert Laubacher (MIT), Alok Prakash (SMART), Thomas Malone (MIT)
Evaluating Performance in Human-AI Systems
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International Conference on Computational Social Science
2024
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Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Michelle Vaccaro (MIT), Abdullah Almaatouq (MIT), Thomas Malone (MIT)
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Venue:
Collective Intelligence Conference, Delft, Netherlands
2023
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Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Alice Cai (MIT), Steven Rick (MIT), Jennifer Heyman (MIT), Yanxia Zhang (Toyota Research Institue), Alexandre Filipowicz (Toyota Research Institue), Matthew Hong (Toyota Research Institue), Matt Klenk (Toyota Research Institue), Thomas Malone (MIT)
AGI-Elo: How far are we from mastering a task?
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NeurIPS
2025
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Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Shuo Sun (SMART), Yimin Zhao (NUS), Christina Dao Wen Lee (NUS), Jiawei Sun (NUS), Chengran Yuan (NUS), Zefan Huang (NUS), Dongen Li (NUS) , Justin KW Yeoh (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Thomas Malone (MIT), and Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Togedule: Scheduling Meetings with Large Language Models and Adaptive Representations of Group Availability
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Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW ’25, October 18–22, 2025, Bergen, Norway
2025
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Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Jaeyoon Song (MIT), Zahra Ashktorab (IBM), Thomas Malone (MIT)
Interaction Configurations and Prompt Guidance in Conversational AI for Question Answering in Human-AI Teams
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Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW ’25, October 18–22, 2025, Bergen, Norway.
2025
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Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Jaeyoon Song (MIT), Zahra Ashktorab (IBM), Qian Pan (IBM), Casey Dugan (IBM), Werner Geyer (IBM), Thomas Malone (MIT)
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International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), June 23 – 27, 2025, Campinas, Brazil
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Steven Rick (MIT), Jennifer Heyman (MIT), Pablo Paredes (Toyota Research Institute), Matthew Hong (Toyota Research Institute), Thomas Malone (MIT)
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Venue: CI '24: Proceedings of the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference
2024
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Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Jennifer Heyman (MIT), Steven Rick (MIT), Glanni Glacomelli (MIT), Haoren Wen (MIT), Robert Laubacher (MIT), Nancy Taubenslag (MIT), Max Knicker (Ecole Polytechnique), Younes Jeddi (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University), Pranav Ragupathy (MIT), Jared Curhan (MIT), Thomas Malone (MIT)
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Nature Human Behaviour
2024
Publication Type:
Journal
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Published
Authors:
Michelle Vaccaro (MIT), Abdullah Almaatouq (MIT), Thomas Malone (MIT)
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Venue:
2024
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Patents
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Authors:
Alice Cai (MIT), Thomas Malone (MIT), Yanxia Zhang (Toyota Research Institue), Alexandre Filipowicz (Toyota Research Institue), Matthew Hong (Toyota Research Institue), Steven Rick (MIT), Heishiro Toyoda (Toyota Research Institue)
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Venue:
CHI'24: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2024
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Jie Gao (SMART), Simret Araya Gebreegziabher (University of Notre Dame), Kenny Tsu Wei Choo (SUTD), Toby Jia-Jun Li (University of Notre Dame), Simon Tangi Perrault (SUTD), Thomas W Malone (MIT)