On May 17 - 18th at the US-Russia International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering in St. Petersburg, Professor Debra Laefer spoke on Vertical Data Integration for Tunneling and met with leaders in geotechnology from both the US and Russia. She was… Continue Reading Professor Debra Laefer attends US-Russia International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering
March 23, 2018 Evidence-based governing requires training. Governing Magazine discusses why data analysis skills are important for policymakers, and highlights new resources such as the Coleridge Initiative, a joint training program from the University of Chicago, University of Maryland, and NYU… Continue Reading Why Policymakers Should Learn to Be Data Analysts
March 6, 2018 Professor Constantine Kontokosta Professor Daniel Neill Congratulations to NYU CUSP Professors Constantine Kontokosta and Daniel Neill, who have been awarded the Marron Institute's inaugural seed grant award for their proposal "Making Local Governments' Housing Quality Maintenance Systems Fairer and More… Continue Reading NYU CUSP Professors Awarded the Marron Institute’s Inaugural Seed Grant Award
February 20, 2018 NYU CUSP Professor Neil Kleiman explains five suggestions for how cities can catch up (via The Daily Beast): Amazon already disappointed 218 cities when it culled the list of applicants for the tech giant’s secondary headquarters down to 20… Continue Reading To Join the Tech Revolution, Cities Need a New Operating System
February 14, 2018 NYU CUSP Professor Julia Lane discusses the NYU Administrative Data Facility (ADRF), which enables multiple local, state, and federal agencies to keep data in separate secure areas, and link data for approved projects (via Workforce Data Quality Campaign): … Continue Reading Administrative Data Facility Enables Cross-State Data Sharing
November 16, 2018 Education Dive features an interview with NYU CUSP Professor Constantine Kontokosta. In 2012, New York’s then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed colleges and universities around the world submit ideas for an applied science campus which would act as an engine… Continue Reading Urban Informatics Offers Partnership Opportunities Between Institutions, Cities
November 16, 2018 Spar3D features Professor Debra Laefer's research on the world’s densest urban aerial lidar data set. Recently professor Debra F. Laefer, with NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress–released what the center is calling the world’s densest urban… Continue Reading How An NYU Professor Captured The Densest-Ever Public Aerial Lidar Data
November 16, 2018 Technical.ly Brooklyn features Professor Debra Laefer’s research on the world’s densest urban aerial lidar data set. New York University has made available the densest public LiDAR data set ever collected, via its Center for Urban Science and Progress.… Continue Reading NYU Releases The Densest LiDAR Dataset Ever To Help Urban Development
November 16, 2018 Professor Kaan Ozbay is quoted in an article by Salon. Elon Musk revealed recently more details about his proposal to solve traffic gridlock by creating an elaborate 3D matrix of subterranean highways that would whisk cars around on electrified… Continue Reading Elon Musk’s Tunnel Vision: Why His “Boring Company” Underground Traffic Solution Is A Bad Idea
November 16, 2018 NYU CUSP Professor Julia Lane featured by Nature International Journal of Science. When Julia Lane began working in scientific-funding policy she was quickly taken aback by how unscientific the discipline was compared with the rigorous processes she… Continue Reading Assessment: Academic Return
