Urban Tomography

Invited Speaker: Martin H. Krieger
Date: April 11 - 8, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Venue: Boelter Hall 4760

Abstract

Using cellphones (Nokia N95) as ENS to enable a swarm of users to video-document urban phenomena, and immediately archive and display the videos (having been broadcast to the the server via internet and WiFi or GPRS). (Imagine 1000 Zapruders videoing the Kennedy Assasination.) http://catnip.usc.edu is the relevant website.

Biography

Martin H. Krieger is the Professor of Planning, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, USC. For the last ten years he has been working on visual documentation of cities. His seven books have been on mathematical physics and its meaning, computer modeling of urban processes, entrepreneurship, environmental policy, and theories of planning and design. His PhD is in physics, from Columbia, and he has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center. Some of his work is available at http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~krieger, and his blog http://blogs.usc.edu/sppd/krieger