# Deb Roy > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Deb_Roy > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Deb_Roy.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Roy > Source revision: 1334595672 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Canadian computer scientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Deb Roy | image = File:Deb Roy (11881280833) (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Deb Roy at an MIT faculty meeting, 2014 | birth_date = | birth_place = [Winnipeg](/source/Winnipeg), [Manitoba](/source/Manitoba), Canada | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = [MIT](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology), [Bluefin Labs](/source/Bluefin_Labs), [Twitter](/source/Twitter) | alma_mater = [MIT](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology)
[University of Waterloo](/source/University_of_Waterloo) | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = [Bridgit Mendler](/source/Bridgit_Mendler) | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | footnotes = }} '''Deb Roy''' is a Canadian scientist, tenured professor at [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology) (MIT), and the director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. ==Biography== Roy received a bachelor of applied science in computer engineering from the [University of Waterloo](/source/University_of_Waterloo), and a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.{{Cite web|title=Deb Roy {{!}} Laboratory for Social Machines|url=http://dkroy.media.mit.edu/|access-date=2020-02-11|language=en-US}} He previously was the executive director of the MIT Media Lab and directed the Cognitive Machines group at the Media Lab,{{cite web|title=Cognitive Machines Group|url=http://www.media.mit.edu/cogmac/|website=www.media.mit.edu}} and the Laboratory for Social Machines. Roy conducts research on language, games, and social dynamics at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. An author of over 150 academic papers{{cite web|title=Deb Roy's publications page|url=http://dkroy.media.mit.edu/publications/|website=socialmachines.media.mit.edu}}{{Cite web|title=Deb Roy – Google Scholar Citations|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=btoec6QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao|access-date=2020-02-11|website=scholar.google.com}} in machine learning, cognitive modeling, and human-machine interaction, his [TED Talk](/source/TED_(conference)), ''Birth of a Word'' (based on the 2006–2009 [Human Speechome Project](/source/Human_Speechome_Project)), has been viewed over 2.8 million times.{{cite web|title=Birth of a Word TED talk|url=https://www.ted.com/embed/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word?language=en|website=www.ted.com}} In 2008, he co-founded and was the founding CEO of [Bluefin Labs](/source/Bluefin_Labs), a social TV analytics company, which ''[MIT Technology Review](/source/MIT_Technology_Review)'' named as one of the 50 most innovative companies of 2012.{{cite web|title=Technology Review's top 50 disruptive companies in 2012|url=http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr50/bluefinlabs|website=technologyreview.com|access-date=2013-08-14|archive-date=2012-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020103643/http://www.technologyreview.com/tr50/bluefinlabs/|url-status=dead}} Bluefin was acquired by Twitter in 2013,{{cite news|last=Stelter|first=Brian|date=February 5, 2013|title=Twitter Buys Company That Mines Chatter About TV|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/twitter-buys-company-that-mines-chatter-about-tv/?_r=0}} and Roy served as chief media scientist of [Twitter](/source/Twitter) from 2013 to 2017. He is also co-founder and chairman of Cortico, a nonprofit media technology company whose Local Voices Network aims to foster constructive public conversations across political and cultural divides.{{Cite web|title=Cortico|url=https://www.cortico.ai/|access-date=2020-02-11|website=Cortico|language=en-US}} The Laboratory for Social Machines started in 2014 with an investment of $10 million from Twitter over a five-year period.{{cite news|date=1 October 2014|title=MIT launches Laboratory for Social Machines with major Twitter investment|work=MIT News|url=http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/twitter-funds-mit-media-lab-program-1001|accessdate=6 October 2014}} The agreement also gives the lab access to all historical Twitter data and access to the firehose of all real-time tweets. The lab aims to "create new platforms for both individuals and institutions to identify, discuss, and act on pressing societal problems." In 2018, Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral published "The spread of true and false news online" in ''Science''.{{Cite journal|last1=Vosoughi|first1=Soroush|last2=Roy|first2=Deb|last3=Aral|first3=Sinan|date=2018-03-09|title=The spread of true and false news online|journal=Science|language=en|volume=359|issue=6380|pages=1146–1151|doi=10.1126/science.aap9559|issn=0036-8075|pmid=29590045|bibcode=2018Sci...359.1146V |s2cid=4549072 |doi-access=free}} The paper examined "~126,000 stories tweeted by ~3 million people more than 4.5 million times," and found that "Falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information, and the effects were more pronounced for false political news than for false news about terrorism, natural disasters, science, urban legends, or financial information." Additionally, the authors found that "Contrary to [conventional wisdom](/source/conventional_wisdom), robots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate, implying that false news spreads more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it." ==See also== * [Human Speechome Project](/source/Human_Speechome_Project) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://web.media.mit.edu/~dkroy/ Deb Roy's MIT home page] * {{TED speaker}} ** [https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word "The birth of a word" (TED2011)] * [https://www.bluefinlabs.com/ Bluefin Labs home page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701181050/https://bluefinlabs.com/ |date=2015-07-01 }} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141022071530/http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/summit/video/deb-roy-talking-human#.VEFjiIvF_IM BIF Summit talk by Deb Roy]}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Roy, Deb}} Category:American computer scientists Category:Canadian computer scientists Category:Living people Category:MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty Category:MIT Media Lab people Category:Scientists from Manitoba Category:Twitter, Inc. people Category:University of Waterloo alumni Category:Year of birth missing (living people) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Deb Roy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Roy) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Roy?action=history)). 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