Takashi Iba is a visiting scholar at MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He is also an assistant professor at Faculty of Policy Management as well as Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. Prior to joining the Keio faculty, he was an assistant professor at Faculty of Policy Informatics, Chiba University of Commerce.
Dr. Iba is interested in supporting creativity of individuals, organization, and society in the viewpoint of method and tools. He is particularly active in studying open-collaboration and spontaneous order in society. His research depends on the system theory, especially complex systems and autopoiesis. He is equally at home in computer simulation, and he leads a project developing the tools and methodology for social simulation studies.
He authored the national best-selling scientific textbook, Introduction to Complex Systems: An Adventure to the Frontier of Knowledge (NTT Publishers, 1998, in Japanese), while a master student. The book has attained a sale of twenty thousand copies, and he received Keio University President Award (1998). He also authored Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics (Nihon Hyoronsha, 2004, in Japanese), and Frontiers of Policy Management IV (Keio University Press, 2003, in Japanese).
He earned a BA in Environmental Information, Master of Media and Governance, and a Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University under the supervision of Professor Yoshiyasu Takefuji, computer scientist, and Professor Heizo Takenaka, economist who served as the Minister for Economic/Fiscal Policy, Financial Services, Internal Affairs and Communications in Japan.
- T. Iba's Homepage @ Keio SFC (More information, including published papers)
- Blog "Concept Walk" (Newly Opened!)