Last year, he received the opportunity to collaborate with researchers at Facebook, and is currently embedded there, collaborating with computer scientists, sociologists, and statisticians from around the world on questions centered around human behavior.
Mr. Anderson, who traces peer-to-peer networks back to an ad hoc networking system called Usenet pioneered over telephone lines in 1979, said his research group was collaborating with computer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a next-generation peer-to-peer network, to be unveiled in a few months.
Now they're collaborating with computer experts to develop ways to scan the internet for fake and misleading stories about climate.
In addition to the brain surgery instrument, he is collaborating with computer scientists at the university on a steady-hand tool that would allow physicians to conduct extremely delicate surgery on blood vessels in the retina of the eye.
There's nothing that prevents us from granting the same kind of recognition to humans whose jobs require them to collaborate with computers.
We've also been thinking about ways in which we might be able to collaborate with computer scientists, engineers, and other technologists on projects that involve free speech and new technology.
"For some issues, such as reliable measurement of stressor exposure, social and psychological scientists are being encouraged to collaborate with computer scientists and engineers are developing health promotion and tracking devices.
As Ms. Samuel explains in the illuminating book she edited to accompany the show, the implications of fractals didn't become clear until Mr. Mandelbrot began to collaborate with computer programmers to create graphic representations of certain kinds of purely abstract mathematical formulas.
So computer scientist Jordi Duch at Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, in Spain and his colleagues collaborated with computer scientists at Northwestern University, who developed a software plug-in called Ono.
