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Martin Hilbert

Martin Hilbert (born in 1977) is a social scientist who is a professor at the University of California where he chairs the campus-wide emphasis on Computational Social Science.[3] He studies societal digitalization. His work is recognized in academia for the first study that assessed how much information there is in the world;[4] in public policy for having designed the first digital action plan with the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations (eLAC Action Plans); and in the popular media for having alerted about the intervention of Cambridge Analytica a year before the scandal broke.[5]

Martin Hilbert
Hilbert presenting at Puerto de Ideas
Born1977 (age 46–47)
NationalityGerman - USA
Alma materUniversity of Southern California (PhD)
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Dr. rer.pol.)
Known forBig Data[1]
Information explosion
eLAC Action Plans.[2]
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Social Science, Information Theory, Complex Systems, Information Society
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis
Doctoral advisorsManuel Castells (2012)
Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider (2006)

Career and research

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Hilbert served as Economic Affairs Officer of the United Nations Secretariat for 15 years (UN ECLAC), where he created the Information Society Program for Latin America and the Caribbean[6] He conceptualized the design of the eLAC Action Plans, which has led to six consecutive generations of digital development agendas for Latin America and the Caribbean (2005–2025).[7]

Hilbert studies the conditions and effects of digitalization (information & communication) and algorithmification (knowledge)[8] on human processes and societal dynamics. His research has found audiences in communication science,[9] information science,[10] international development,[11] evolution and ecology,[12] technological forecasting,[13] complexity science,[14][15] network science,[16] economics,[17][18] physics,[19] psychology,[20] women's studies[21] and multidisciplinary science.[22]

Consulting

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Hilbert has provided technical assistance in the field of digital development to more than 20 countries and contributed to publicly traded companies as digital strategist. He has consulted with governments and companies, especially in Latin America, which has earned him media-titles like “guru of big data”.[23][24]

Teaching

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Hilbert's university courses are available as MOOCs on Coursera. His teachings on "Digital Technology & Social Change" consists of an introduction to the digital age, being informed by his hands-on experience at the United Nations and his regular consultancy work.[25] His methods course is an introduction to the scientific method, informed by complexity science, executed with computational tools and called “University of California Computational Social Science”. It was the first UC-wide online course that involves faculty members from all 10 UC campuses (17 different lecturers).[26]

Awards & Recognitions

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Hilbert's numerous peer recognitions span from awards for visual infographics,[27] and written interviews,[28] to an endowed chair position at the Library of Congress,[29] and ranked at the 'Top-100 Best Online Courses of ALL TIMES,[30] as well as two awards for online teaching from the University of California Office of the President's Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI).[31]

References

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  1. ^ Hilbert, Martin; López, Priscila (2011). "The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information". Science. 332 (6025): 60–65. Bibcode:2011Sci...332...60H. doi:10.1126/science.1200970. PMID 21310967. S2CID 206531385.
  2. ^ eLAC Action Plans: A personal account; http://www.martinhilbert.net/elac-action-plans-a-personal-account
  3. ^ "Computational Social Science at UC Davis". css.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  4. ^ Hilbert M, López P (April 2011). "The world's technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute information" (PDF). Science. 332 (6025): 60–5. Bibcode:2011Sci...332...60H. doi:10.1126/science.1200970. PMID 21310967. S2CID 206531385. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Journalism of Excellence Award". MartinHilbert.net. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Information and communications technologies (ICTs)". www.cepal.org. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  7. ^ "ELAC Action Plans: A personal account".
  8. ^ Martin Hilbert (11 July 2023). DTSC: 2.4 What is Digitalization & Algorithmification?. Retrieved 12 July 2024 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ Hilbert, M., & Darmon, D. (2020). Largescale Communication Is More Complex and Unpredictable with Automated Bots. Journal of Communication, 70(5).
  10. ^ Hilbert, Martin; Thakur, Arti; Flores, Pablo M.; Zhang, Xiaoya; Bhan, Jee Young; Bernhard, Patrick; Ji, Feng (2024). "8–10% of algorithmic recommendations are 'bad', but… an exploratory risk-utility meta-analysis and its regulatory implications". International Journal of Information Management. 75: 102743. doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102743. ISSN 0268-4012.
  11. ^ Hilbert, Martin (2010). "When is Cheap, Cheap Enough to Bridge the Digital Divide? Modeling Income Related Structural Challenges of Technology Diffusion in Latin America". World Development. 38 (5): 756–770. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.019. ISSN 0305-750X.
  12. ^ Gillings, Michael R.; Hilbert, Martin; Kemp, Darrell J. (2016). "Information in the Biosphere: Biological and Digital Worlds". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31 (3): 180–189. Bibcode:2016TEcoE..31..180G. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.013. ISSN 0169-5347. PMID 26777788.
  13. ^ Hilbert, Martin; Miles, Ian; Othmer, Julia (2009). "Foresight tools for participative policy-making in inter-governmental processes in developing countries: Lessons learned from the eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 76 (7): 880–896. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2009.01.001. ISSN 0040-1625.
  14. ^ Hilbert, Martin (2014). "Scale-free power-laws as interaction between progress and diffusion". Complexity. 19 (4): 56–65. Bibcode:2014Cmplx..19d..56H. doi:10.1002/cplx.21485. ISSN 1076-2787.
  15. ^ Hilbert, Martin (2017). "Complementary Variety: When Can Cooperation in Uncertain Environments Outperform Competitive Selection?". Complexity. 2017: 1–15. doi:10.1155/2017/5052071. ISSN 1076-2787.
  16. ^ Hilbert, Martin; Oh, Poong; Monge, Peter (1 October 2016). "Evolution of what? A network approach for the detection of evolutionary forces". Social Networks. 47: 38–46. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2016.04.003. ISSN 0378-8733.
  17. ^ Hilbert, Martin (1 September 2016). "Formal definitions of information and knowledge and their role in growth through structural change". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. Complexity and Economic Development. 38: 69–82. doi:10.1016/j.strueco.2016.03.004. ISSN 0954-349X.
  18. ^ Hilbert, Martin (2020). "Information Theory for Human and Social Processes". Entropy. 23 (1): 9. Bibcode:2020Entrp..23....9H. doi:10.3390/e23010009. ISSN 1099-4300. PMC 7822471. PMID 33374607.
  19. ^ Hilbert, Martin; Darmon, David (2020). "How Complexity and Uncertainty Grew with Algorithmic Trading". Entropy. 22 (5): 499. Bibcode:2020Entrp..22..499H. doi:10.3390/e22050499. ISSN 1099-4300. PMC 7516984. PMID 33286272.
  20. ^ Hilbert, Martin (2012). "Toward a synthesis of cognitive biases: How noisy information processing can bias human decision making". Psychological Bulletin. 138 (2): 211–237. doi:10.1037/a0025940. ISSN 1939-1455. PMID 22122235.
  21. ^ Hilbert, Martin (1 November 2011). "Digital gender divide or technologically empowered women in developing countries? A typical case of lies, damned lies, and statistics". Women's Studies International Forum. 34 (6): 479–489. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2011.07.001. ISSN 0277-5395.
  22. ^ Hilbert, Martin; López, Priscila (2011). "The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information". Science. 332 (6025): 60–65. Bibcode:2011Sci...332...60H. doi:10.1126/science.1200970. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 21310967.
  23. ^ "Martin Hilbert, gurú del Big Data: "La democracia no está preparada para la era digital y está siendo destruida"". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  24. ^ "El gurú del 'big data': "Facebook sabe más de ti con 250 likes que tú mismo"". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 27 November 2017. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  25. ^ "Digital Technology and Social Change". Coursera. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  26. ^ "Computational Social Science". Coursera. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  27. ^ "The Hidden Digital Divide". www.informationisbeautifulawards.com. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  28. ^ "Martin Hilbert, experto en redes digitales: Obama y Trump usaron el Big Data para lavar cerebros”; The Clinic (2017); Daniel Hopenhayn (winner of Chilean Journalism of Excellence award). https://www.theclinic.cl/2018/05/15/periodista-the-clinic-daniel-hopenhayn-gano-premio-periodismo-excelencia-la-uah-mejor-entrevista-escrita/
  29. ^ "Big Data and Its Impact on Democracy". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  30. ^ University of California Computational Social Science, Coursera Online Specialization, https://www.classcentral.com/report/review-ucdavis-comp-social-science/
  31. ^ "CV & bio". MartinHilbert.net. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
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