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Nathan Eagle videos
Jul. 26th, 2009 05:08 pmAt the SFI Summer School, Nathan Eagle gave two awesome lectures on "reality mining" ("ubiquitous sensing"), namely about tracking people's location through GPS on the cell phones. His datasets include the majority of the population of whole countries.
The implications are huge, and possible applications include: tracking economic activity, social activity, tracing the source of epidemics, crime.
I caught parts of them on video.
On the second video, 11:25, he also mentions the IMMI Media Monitoring System, which turns on the microphone on phones (which people explicitly signed up for), to track media consumption.
Video 1
Video 2
The implications are huge, and possible applications include: tracking economic activity, social activity, tracing the source of epidemics, crime.
I caught parts of them on video.
On the second video, 11:25, he also mentions the IMMI Media Monitoring System, which turns on the microphone on phones (which people explicitly signed up for), to track media consumption.
Video 1
Video 2
