Senior Research Scientist Charlie Mydlarz and Research Scientist Mark Cartwright discuss the Sounds of New York City (SONYC) Project's efforts to monitor, analyze, and mitigate urban noise pollution in this article by David Owen of The New Yorker. (...)A few weeks… Continue Reading Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis?
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NYU CUSP's Associate Professor Constantine E. Kontokosta, PhD, PE, has been selected as a Google AI Impact Grantee (Press Release via New York University). The Institute will partner with FDNY to apply Artificial Intelligence to emergency response.New York University’s Marron Institute… Continue Reading NYU CUSP & NYU Marron Institute’s Constantine E. Kontokosta is a Google AI Impact Grantee
R&D Magazine features new research by Masoud Ghandehari, an associate professor at NYU CUSP and NYU Tandon's Department of Civil and Urban Engineering. A new report outlines how advances in instrumentation and information technology will soon allow researchers to get… Continue Reading New Technology Could Allow Scientists to Better Understand Pollution Impact on Each Individual
A new review by New York University researchers of studies on levels of urban exposure to airborne pollutants and their effects on human health suggests that advanced instrumentation and information technology will soon allow researchers and policymakers to gauge the… Continue Reading Diagnosing urban air pollution exposure with new precision
A recent Metropolis Think Tank panel with planning experts, city officials, and architects from KPF delved into data how data is shaping today's urban planning. What’s most unnerving about data harvesting is how seamless and unnoticeable it is. Whether hailing a ride… Continue Reading Leveraging Data to Help Plan Better Cities
A capstone project by NYU CUSP graduate students is featured by Patch. NEW YORK — A walk around a neighborhood can reveal some surface-level signs of gentrification, such as a pricey new coffee shop or the skeleton of a high-rise… Continue Reading See How Hard Gentrification Has Hit Your NYC Neighborhood
The Sounds of New York City Project (SONYC) is featured in a new podcast by Scientific American. NYU’s “Sounds of New York City” project listens to the city—and then, with the help of citizen scientists, teaches machines to decode the… Continue Reading Computers Turn an Ear on New York City
Research from NYU CUSP graduate students featured by UC Berkeley. The New York metropolitan area has seen tremendous economic growth, but many residents in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods are struggling to afford living in the 31-county, tri-state region, University of California,… Continue Reading New York City gentrification creating urban ‘islands of exclusion,’ study finds
C2SMART has designated funding for 12 new projects that seek to tackle a wide range of issues in transportation, both building on the center’s current work and investigating new challenges in the center’s research areas, including C2SMART’s new focus on… Continue Reading Research Project by NYU CUSP Associate Professor of Practice Stanislav Sobolevsky selected for C2SMART Year 3 Agenda
The Sounds of New York City (SONYC) is featured by The Verge. Cities are noisy places, and a team of scientists believe that sensors, artificial intelligence, and some generous volunteers can help solve the problem. Sounds of New York City(SONYC) is… Continue Reading Help fight noise pollution by identifying these sound clips collected from urban sensors
NYU CUSP Research Scientist Mark Cartwright discusses how the Sounds of New York City project (SONYC) is looking for volunteer citizen scientists to review 10-second snippets of sound with AM New York. Researchers from New York University have spent over two years… Continue Reading Think you know the sounds of the city? Noise pollution experts needed
SONYC is featured by Metro New York. New York City noise pollution is a serious issue, and New York University researchers need your help to fight it.New York City is noisy, and that fact is more than just an annoyance… Continue Reading You can help researchers curb NYC noise pollution as a citizen scientist
Featured by New York University. The Sounds of New York City (SONYC) project launches its first citizen science initiative to help NYU researchers train machine listening models.The Sounds of New York City (SONYC) —a first-of-its-kind research project addressing urban noise pollution—has launched… Continue Reading Citizen Scientists Train Artificial Intelligence to Help Mitigate Noise Pollution in NYC
Juan P. Bello and Charles Mydlarz discuss "SONYC: A System for the Monitoring, Analyzing, and Mitigating Urban Noise Pollution," a Contributed Article in the February 2019 Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) Magazine. https://vimeo.com/310203443Noise is unwanted or harmful… Continue Reading SONYC: A System for Monitoring, Analyzing, and Mitigating Urban Noise Pollution
NYU CUSP Senior Research Scientist Charlie Mydlarz & the Sounds of New York City (SONYC) project is featured by WCBS Newsradio 880. Noise is the number one complaint of New Yorkers, according to the number of 311 calls to the city.In… Continue Reading ‘Sweet Spot’ With Mike Sugerman: Scientists Study Sounds To Bring Some Quiet To NYC
