November 22, 2014 The 2014 AT&T Transit Tech Developer Day App is an opportunity to launch the development of your 2014 MTA App Quest entry. This day will allow you to: Hear from MTA experts about this year’s App Quest… Continue Reading 2014 AT&T Transit Tech Developer Day at CUSP
A Secret Urban Observatory Is Snapping 9,000 Images A Day Of New York City
November 16, 2018 Featured by Fast Company. Astronomers have long built observatories to capture the night sky and beyond. Now researchers at NYU are borrowing astronomy’s methods and turning their cameras towards Manhattan’s famous skyline.NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress has been running… Continue Reading A Secret Urban Observatory Is Snapping 9,000 Images A Day Of New York City
CUSP Research Seminar Series: Dr. Aaditya Rangan
October 29, 2014 Abstract: A common problem in data analysis – including machine learning and genomics – is to detect, within a large array, small submatrices which are ‘structured’ in some way. Such submatrices, called ‘biclusters’ can represent a subset… Continue Reading CUSP Research Seminar Series: Dr. Aaditya Rangan
They’re Tracking When You Turn Off The Lights
November 16, 2018 Featured by the Wall Street Journal. Four percent of Manhattanites go to bed before 7:30 p.m. on weeknights. Only 6% turn off the lights after midnight.For more fine-grained data on what makes New York City tick, ask… Continue Reading They’re Tracking When You Turn Off The Lights
Quantifying The Livable City
November 16, 2018 Featured by The Atlantic's CityLab. By the time Constantine Kontokosta got involved with New York City’s Hudson Yards development, it was already on track to be historically big and ambitious.Over the course of the next decade, developers from New… Continue Reading Quantifying The Livable City
Meet The Man Who Turned NYC Into His Own Lab
November 16, 2018 Featured by Time Magazine. In the mornings, Steven Koonin often dons a light blue shirt and khaki suit jacket, walks out of his apartment above Manhattan’s chic Washington Square park and heads for the subway. As he… Continue Reading Meet The Man Who Turned NYC Into His Own Lab
What NYU CUSP Is Like, According To Recent Grad Aliya Merali
September 22, 2014 Featured by Technical.ly Brooklyn. Aliya Merali had been working in a plasma physics lab at Princeton, but she told us, “I wanted to work on problems where I felt like I would immediately be able to impact… Continue Reading What NYU CUSP Is Like, According To Recent Grad Aliya Merali
CUSP Research Seminar: Prof. Jorge E. Gonzalez
July 17, 2014 Please join us for a research seminar and discussion with Jorge E. Gonzalez, CUNY. All guests are welcome to attend a networking reception following the seminar at 5:00 pm. Bio: Prof. Jorge Gonzalez has more than 20 years of expertise… Continue Reading CUSP Research Seminar: Prof. Jorge E. Gonzalez
CUSP Research Seminar Series: Dr. Manuela Veloso – Autonomous Mobile Robots: Soccer and Service
July 10, 2014 Abstract: The CMDragons robot soccer team, and the CoBot service robots have been at CUSP for one month now.The talk will present the two research efforts. For the CMDragons, we will focus on the data processed for attack… Continue Reading CUSP Research Seminar Series: Dr. Manuela Veloso – Autonomous Mobile Robots: Soccer and Service
Book Preview – Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement
June 16, 2014 On June 16, 2014, CUSP will host a workshop in New York City to discuss the forthcoming book, Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement. The book, edited by Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender,… Continue Reading Book Preview – Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement
Science Hack Day NYC
May 31, 2014 CUSP is teaming up with the World Science Festival for a weekend of hands-on urban science. Science Hack Day NYC is about hacking for good, which means tinkering with technology to do cool science. The event aims to bring together software developers, web designers and… Continue Reading Science Hack Day NYC
Machine Learning Lab
May 30, 2014 LAB: Machine Learning Applications & Project-Specific Solutions for NYC* In this follow-up lab session we will introduce and practice some core machine learning algorithms on real-world open urban data. We will go through the full analysis cycle… Continue Reading Machine Learning Lab
Machine Learning & The City – Lecture
May 16, 2014 What is machine learning and how it can benefit the City? Machine learning is leading the Big Data and Data Science advances across natural and social science domains. In this seminar we will introduce the historical and… Continue Reading Machine Learning & The City – Lecture
Beyond The Quantified Self: The World’s Largest Quantified Community
November 16, 2018 Featured by Fast Company. So-called “smart” cities and communities are sprouting around the world, from the urban laboratory that is the Spanish port city of Santander to a huge residential energy research project that has been running for years in Austin, Texas.Now… Continue Reading Beyond The Quantified Self: The World’s Largest Quantified Community
Huge New York Development Project Becomes A Data Science Lab
November 16, 2018 Featured by the New York Times. Hudson Yards is a huge estate development project, the largest in New York since Rockefeller Center. It is to include office towers, apartments, shops, a luxury hotel, a public school and… Continue Reading Huge New York Development Project Becomes A Data Science Lab