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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
New high-tech NYU ‘genius’ school opens in downtown Brooklyn
New York University’s new Center for Urban Science & Progress unveiled its new Downtown Brooklyn office that includes 26,000 square feet of office space, work stations for visiting faculty, and two huge “visualization labs.” Continue Reading New high-tech NYU ‘genius’ school opens in downtown Brooklyn
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… 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,… 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
SimCity, For Real: Measuring An Untidy Metropolis
NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (NYU-CUSP) develops a “science of cities.” A public-private partnership between the city of New York and NYU-CUSP will use big data to tackle urban issues and help build better “SimCities.” Continue Reading SimCity, For Real: Measuring An Untidy Metropolis
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
Data Scientists Will Unlock Big Data’s Promise
November 16, 2018 Featured by the Wall Street Journal. A couple of months ago I was appointed executive-in-residence at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), an interdisciplinary applied science research institute led by NYU and NYU-Poly in partnership… Continue Reading Data Scientists Will Unlock Big Data’s Promise
Physics: A Different Kind Of Impact Factor
“Physicists are good at finding [the data] and ferreting out new phenomena,” said Koonin [CUSP Director], who likes to joke that his ideal candidate is a graduate student that helped discover the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, but now wants to do something with more immediate social impact Continue Reading Physics: A Different Kind Of Impact Factor