The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment.
- http://senseable.mit.edu/obama/data_analysis.html
- http://senseable.mit.edu/realtimerome/
- http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/
- http://www.mamartino.com/
- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ratti-smartest-cities-use-people-as-sensors Bilder:
- http://www.maind.supsi.ch/maindzine/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fig-3.jpg
- http://flowingcity.com/wp-content/uploads/madonna-color-630x472.jpg
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Supercomputer predicts revolution:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14841018
The simulation, which took 75 days to create on a supercomputer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, depicts CO2 emissions from May 2005 to June 2007.
The visualization shows the history of commits in the Eclipse, Apache, PostgreSQL and Python project. Developers and files are represented as moving elements. When a developer commits a file, it lights up and flies towards that developer.
Wolfram is most interested in looking for signals about how a person and their life changes over time, and Facebook data provides plenty. | shorter: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514186/lifes-trajectory-seen-through-facebook-data/
Molekulare Maschinen des Körpers, u.a. "DNS-Kopiermaschinen" -- We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- Drew Berry wants to change that. At TEDxSydney he shows his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within our own cells.