March 4, 2014 Opinion editorial featured by APS News. While physics is a science, it is also a set of tools and a state of mind. Physicists have repeatedly found intellectual and practical benefit in applying their methods to new… Continue Reading Urban Physics
Science and the City 2014
March 1, 2014 Science and the City is an annual weekend-long hackfest co-organized by NYU’s CUSP, the Center for Urban Science and Progress, and ITP, the Interactive Telecommunications Programme. The theme is citizen science for exploring and improving our urban environment. Some of… Continue Reading Science and the City 2014
Transatlantic Science Forum
January 27, 2014 In June 2013, President Obama, together with European Commission President Barroso and European Council President Van Rompuy, announced that the United States and the European Union (EU) will launch negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership… Continue Reading Transatlantic Science Forum
Urban Informatics & Data Analytics Executive Program
December 4, 2013 Executive Education at CUSP provides you with the ability to use large-scale data, from a variety of sources, to understand and address real-world challenges in the urban context. The program covers trends, challenges, and opportunities for in… Continue Reading Urban Informatics & Data Analytics Executive Program
Steven Koonin’s Growing Army Of Big-Data Wizards Is Out To Make New York A Better City
November 16, 2018 Featured by New York Business Journal. Forget the ivory tower. Some new college programs launching in New York are tied into improving city life and boosting the economy. For example, Steven Koonin, director of Center for Urban Science… Continue Reading Steven Koonin’s Growing Army Of Big-Data Wizards Is Out To Make New York A Better City
CUSP & IBM present: Urban Informatics and the Keys to the Future City
October 16, 2013 About the Event Today, more than half the world's population lives in urban areas—that equates to some 3.3 billion people; with an estimated 1 million people moving into cities each week. By 2030, this number will swell… Continue Reading CUSP & IBM present: Urban Informatics and the Keys to the Future City
A School Devoted Entirely To The ‘Science Of Cities’
November 16, 2018 Featured by The Atlantic's CityLab. The Center for Urban Science and Progress, a new research center that recently welcomed its first students and faculty in downtown Brooklyn, certainly has its eyes on the city. The ceiling-high windows of the main… Continue Reading A School Devoted Entirely To The ‘Science Of Cities’
Big Data 101: How Higher Ed Is Teaching Data Science
November 16, 2018 Featured by EdTech Magazine. There's little garnering more buzz today than Big Data. But there are clues that Big Data is more than just the latest technology fad. One such indicator is the IBM Academic Initiative.Big Blue has… Continue Reading Big Data 101: How Higher Ed Is Teaching Data Science
Mayor Bloomberg Welcomes NYU’s Center For Urban Science & Progress Inaugural Graduate Class
Mayor Bloomberg was on hand to welcome the inaugural class of graduate students at New York University’s Center for Urban Science & Progress (CUSP). The NYU center was designated just last year as part of the City’s groundbreaking Applied Sciences NYC initiative, which seeks to increase New York City’s capacity for applied sciences.
Life In The City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem
November 16, 2018 Featured by Smithsonian Magazine. Glen Whitney stands at a point on the surface of the Earth, north latitude 40.742087, west longitude 73.988242, which is near the center of Madison Square Park, in New York City. Behind him… Continue Reading Life In The City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem
NYC ‘Urban Informatics’ Program Readies For Start
November 16, 2018 Featured by the Washington Examiner. A new New York City graduate program aimed at applying information technology to urban problems is gearing up to admit its first class this summer.The New York University-led Center for Urban Science… Continue Reading NYC ‘Urban Informatics’ Program Readies For Start
NYU Opens New ‘Urban Informatics’ School In Downtown Brooklyn
November 16, 2018 Featured by DNAInfo. Officials cut a ribbon Thursday to open New York University’s new Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in Downtown Brooklyn.The center, which will focus on addressing the challenges cities face as their populations grow, is… Continue Reading NYU Opens New ‘Urban Informatics’ School In Downtown Brooklyn
Executive Perspective: Steven Koonin At NYU Finds Pathway From Energy Innovation To Energy Transformation
November 16, 2018 Featured by Thomson Reuters. There are compelling reasons to improve our energy system – to increase accessibility, affordability and reliability and to reduce environmental impacts. Yet the energy system has historically evolved much more slowly than other… Continue Reading Executive Perspective: Steven Koonin At NYU Finds Pathway From Energy Innovation To Energy Transformation
Big Data Can Turn Real Estate Industry On Its Head: A Dispatch From NYU’s Schack Institute Conference
November 16, 2018 Featured by The Real Deal. Big data — the collection of large and complex data sets — can transform building construction and management, investment, leasing and even government policy, according to scholars and experts on sustainable real… Continue Reading Big Data Can Turn Real Estate Industry On Its Head: A Dispatch From NYU’s Schack Institute Conference
A First Look At NYU’s Big Data Campus
November 16, 2018 Featured by Crain's New York. When real estate broker Misha Chiporukha leaves his Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, apartment on Livingston Street and Flatbush Avenue, he is bombarded with New York noises: Buses exhale at the stop in front… Continue Reading A First Look At NYU’s Big Data Campus