The MIT Media Lab online application Place Pulse (presented at Ars Electronica 2011) aims to make quantitative estimates of fuzzy qualities by crowdsourcing binary choices from the public: if you visit pulse.media.mit.edu, you are shown two photos and asked to select the one referring to the “hotter” […]
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Intelligent Buildings International (a journal of Taylor & Francis) just published the Special Issue “From Intelligent to Smart Cities” edited by Mark Deakin and Husam Al Waer. The issue includes an Editorial and five papers offering a coherent and critical view about current developments in the field of intelligent […]
The waste management crisis in Naples, Italy, is peaking again. About two thousands tons of waste lie in the streets, since landfills are overfilled and nobody knows where to put the mixed solid waste of a two-million people urban area. Waste piles are often set on fire, putting the citizens’ and the environment’s health at […]
A great news in the field of social media research: data collected through the Ushahidi platform during its main deployments so far are now available on the Ushahidi community website. “Ushahidi” means “testimony” in Swahili. That’s where the name of the event mapping website comes from. Ushahidi.com was created to monitor the riots following 2008 […]
Thousands of radioactivity monitoring stations in Germany are now linked on a single interactive map. Hiding health threats today is not as easy as it was at the Chernobyl epoch.
Few people know him, but Marian Steinbach has been one of the most relevant worldwide independent sources about the Fukushima nuclear crisis. He is […]
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