Thomas W. Malone

Thomas W. Malone
Malone at the Library of Congress in 2019
Born1952 (age 73–74)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materRice University
Stanford University
Known forMIT Center for Collective Intelligence, We Are Smarter Than Me
Scientific career
FieldsInformation Systems
Organizational theory
Artificial Intelligence
InstitutionsMIT Sloan School of Management
ThesisWhat makes things fun to learn? A study of intrinsically motivating computer games (1980)
Doctoral advisorPatrick Suppes
Doctoral studentsErik Brynjolfsson
Paul Resnick

Thomas Wendell Malone (born 1952) is an American organizational theorist, management consultant, and the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.