Category: Past Events

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 2, 2014 Abstract: Interactive information visualization tools provide researchers with remarkable capabilities to support discovery. These telescopes for high-dimensional data combine powerful statistical methods with user-controlled interfaces. Users can begin with an overview, zoom in on areas of interest,… Continue Reading CUSP Research Seminar Series: Ben Shneiderman

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

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

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

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