Paul Torrens (Principal Investigator) – Professor of Urban Informatics at CUSPWith a trove of data already in hand about how people move about on New York City streetscapes, Professor Paul Torrens’ research team was a natural to perform a compare-and-contrast study… Continue Reading Examining Public Spatial Behavior During the COVID-19 Outbreak
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
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
Featured by the Washington Post. NEW YORK — One of the quietest places in this noisy city is in the middle of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which draws 7 million visitors a year. Most don’t know of the tiny Astor… Continue Reading Noise exposure is becoming ‘the new secondhand smoke’
March 8, 2018 Juan Bello, a sound researcher at NYU CUSP & New York University, is featured in this article by Popular Science. Step onto the streets of New York or any other major city and you will be greeted with a barrage of… Continue Reading These scientists think peace and quiet should be a human right
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
