ID3 co-founder and Chief Scientist, MIT Media Lab professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, was named among “The World’s 7 Most Powerful Data Scientists” by Tim O’Reilly in Forbes Magazine:
“The success of companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix, not to mention Wall Street firms and industries from manufacturing to retail and healthcare, is increasingly driven by better tools for extracting meaning from very large quantities of data,” says Tim O’Reilly. ”Data Scientist is now the hottest job title in Silicon Valley.”
#6 Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Professor, MIT
“Sandy is not only a wide-ranging polymath, he’s providing the intellectual leadership on how sensors, the internet of things, geolocation and promiscuous connectivity can be used to uncover insights regarding human behavior. Sandy is also looking at privacy – an important adjunct to the data space – and helping develop the conversation regarding the trade-offs between privacy and the value of personal data.”