[Mitworld] Marta Gonzalez on Modeling Human Mobility, Panel on Govt Transparency

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 40 |  June 2, 2010

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Modeling Human Mobility
March 16, 2010

Researchers who wish to study mobility patterns might be reaching for your phone. Increasingly, 
cell phones are equipped with locational receivers (Global Positioning Systems or GPS) and 
their bread crumb trails are opening up entirely new ways to study and predict the dynamics of travel.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/770

Speaker:
Marta C. González
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering


Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"We are in the GPS revolution because most PCS of tomorrow will be in our hands in the (form of) the smart phone and that will bring a huge opportunity to science for research."
-Marta González

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Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
March 18, 2010

In December 2009, the Obama administration directed federal agencies and departments to implement 
"principles of transparency, participation and collaboration," and provided deadlines for making 
government information available online.  Speakers Linda Fantin and Ellen Miller, explore the implications of this directive for deeper community engagement in local issues.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/776

Moderator:
Chris Csikszentmihalyi
Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab

Director, MIT Center for Future Civic Media
David and Roberta Loge Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"The future of news isn’t about cheaper journalism, it isn’t about citizen journalism, it is 
about better journalism."
-Linda Fantin

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In The Pipeline:

Lunch with a Laureate: Richard Schrock

Presented By:
MIT Museum
 Cambridge Science Festival

Speaker:
Richard Schrock
Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry
2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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