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| ASU Insight has a feature about my PECASE Award in the latest issue: "Geographer receives Presidential Early Career Award", ASU Insight (Carol Hughes) (January 16, 2009) |
| The National Science Foundation's "Discoveries" section has featured my crowd modeling work, with a piece entitled, "A crowded world" (January 5, 2009) |
| An article about my Presidential Early Career Award was reported in the Saturday edition of the Irish Times: "US award for Dubliner's study of crowd behaviour", The Irish Times (Denis Staunton) (December 20, 2008) |
| My talk at USC on "Modeling megacity futures" got a mention in the write-up of the megacities workshop (which featured on the USC front page) (November 23, 2008) |
| I have joined the International Program Committee for the Third International Cartographic Association Workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, to be held in Gävle, Sweden, August 6-7 (November 14, 2008) |
| I joined the International Program Committee for GEOWeb 2009: 3D Cityscapes, to be held this summer in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. (The CFP is here.) (November 12, 2008) |
| I was invited to give a talk on "Modeling megacity futures" at a symposium on megacities organized by the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. The symposium was a prelude to their upcoming establishment of a center on megacities (November 11, 2008) |
| I just gave an invited talk on "Modeling complex urban systems" at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Computer and Information Science, following an invitation from the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation. I also had the good fortune to visit with the Ackoff Collaboratory for the Advancement of the Systems Approach and the TC Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies (October 6, 2008) |
| I am happy to have just joined the Scientific Advisory Board for Sim Walk, a modeling initiative by Savannah Simulations, a geosimulation company based in Geneva (September 16, 2008) |
| My research is highlighed with a page feature in the Spring/Summer issue of ASU's "Social Sciences at ASU" magazine: "ASU geographer's model predicts crowd behavior" (July 28, 2008) |
| France Telecom's Orange Labs in Silicon Valley invited me to visit and give a talk on geosimulation (July 9, 2008) |
| I was invited to visit Microsoft and to give a talk on "behavioral geography and urban simulation" (June 23, 2008) |
| GIS Professional Magazine has a write-up on my research as part of their coverage of Where 2.0 in the August issue (June 8, 2008) |
| I just gave a talk, on "Modeling crowd behavior", to ~1,000 people at Where 2.0 in Silicon Valley, sandwiched between the Director of Google Earth and Google Maps, the president of ESRI, and the Director of Technology for Autodesk Geospatial. O'Reilly have a video of the talk here, and James Duncan Davidson took a really great photo of me on-stage. I also had an installation in the Where Fair, showing-off my work on Wi-Fi geographies. (May 13, 2008) |
| My white paper forecasts on geospatial technologies for the Institute for the Future's X2: The Future of Science and Innovation are now accessible Online. There are ten of them: I have placed links here (May 1, 2008) |
| I was recognized with an award from the President and Director of the Association of American Geographers, at the AAG Awards Luncheon in Boston, in recognition of my NSF CAREER grant from 2007 (April 19, 2008) |
| Wi-Fi Networking News has a nice piece on my Wi-Fi geography research: "Charting a landscape with Wi-Fi signals", Wi-Fi Networking News (Glenn Flesichmann) (April 14, 2008) |
| Following an invitation from Fabien Girardin and Carlo Ratti, I gave an invited talk, "Modeling the real-time city", at the workshop on real-time cities at MIT's SENSEable City Lab (April 14, 2008) |
Two of my 2007 papers are in the top-five most-downloaded articles for the Journals, Environment & Planning B and Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (March 30, 2008). The articles are:
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| A small story on my Wi-Fi research was featured in ASU Insight (March 12, 2008) |
| Forbes has featured a small piece on my research, under the heading of, "What future tech will bring", (March 11, 2008) |
| I just presented an invited talk, "Geosimulation as an engine for synthetic actors in virtual models", at the IEEE VR meeting in Nevada, as part of the Cityscape workshop (March 9, 2008) |
| My crowd simulation work is on the front page of the Discover Website; they are also hosting a demonstration of my research ("The simulation that saves people from each other") (March 7, 2007) |
| I just gave some talks about my work, at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference in San Diego: One on "Modeling crowd behavior" on the main stage, and another (as an art installation) on "Wi-Fi geography" in their Emerging Arts Fest. Some reviews, commentary are already starting to pop-up, e.g., here and here (March 5, 2007) |
| The April issue of Discover Magazine features a two-page spread on my research; my work is referenced on the front page (February 28, 2008) |
| IEEE Spectrum has just published a really nice piece on my Wi-Fi work (Feburary 28, 2008) |
| My latest paper in the Annals of the Assciation of American Geographers, on the subject of "Wi-Fi geographies", is out today (February 28, 2008) |
| I am featured on the front page of the Website for the upcoming O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference, along with people from Wired, Google, NAVTEQ, Microsoft Live Labs, and Autodesk. (The link to my talk is here.) (January 23, 2008) |
| My work on Wi-Fi geographies will be featured in the O'Reilly Emerging Art Fest at the upcoming Emerging Technologies (ETech 2008) conference. (January 20, 2008) |
| The site has been referenced on Slashdot and is being slammed with visitor hits at the moment. Some of the movies or publications may be down temporarily while my servers ride out the storm, but the traffic should quieten over the next few days. Please check back then if you find the material you are looking for unavailable, or contact me by email [torrens at geosimulation dot com] and I will pass on local copies to you (January 15, 2008). |
| My paper describing a "toolkit for measuring sprawl" is in print for the inaugural issue of the new journal, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (January 2, 2008) |
| My presentation on Wi-Fi geographies has been accepted to O'Reilly Where 2.0 (December 25, 2007) |
| My upcoming talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies (ETech) conference in 2008 is featured on the front page for the conference. It seems I will be sharing the stage with John McCarthy, Peter Norvig, Lawrence Lessig, and folks from Microsoft, Wired, Google, and Yahoo! (December 17, 2008) |
| I just returned from a 25 km lecturing micro-tour of Ireland, where I gave invited talks on “Using geospatial agents to explore riot dynamics” at the National Centre for Geocomputation in National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NCG just won a 10 million Euro grant for Geotechnologies), and on “Geosimulation as an engine for synthetic actors in urban simulations” at the Graphics, Visualisation and Vision Group in Trinity College Dublin’s School of Computer Science. (December 17, 2007) |
| New conference papers Online, on fusing ABM and GIS (Agent 2007) ; geospatial AI wrappers (Agent 2007) ; behavior for urban agent models (IEEE IAT); and space-time analysis of movement (ACM GIS) (November 19, 2007)) |
| Geosimulation getting attention in computer graphics, featured on 3DVF and CG Architect (November 9, 2007) |
| The Futurist magazine has a feature on my work in the November/December issue (October 14, 2007) |
| Architect Magazine has a really nice feature on my work in the October issue (October 1, 2007) |
| Russia's GT Market have a feature on my work (June 17, 2007) |
| My crowd model written-up in Russia's Dialog-21 (June 15, 2007) |
| Livescience is running a feature on my work, including a short movie (June 14, 2007) |
| Interview about Wi-Fi geography and agent modeling with VerySpatial on podcast (.mp3 or .aac) (June 3, 2007) |
| Crowd model featured in the Business Journal Phoenix (June 1, 2007) |
| Research on riot behavior featured in Vanity Fair Germany (May 24, 2007, p.73) |
| Interview with Canadian Broadcast Corporation's "As it happens" (May 22, 2007) [my section begins at time-point 15:00] |
| Wi-Fi analysis research in the news (May 21, 2007) |
| Crowd modeling research in the news, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here (May 21, 2007) |
| Wi-Fi geography movies now Online (May 20, 2007) |
| CAREER grant awarded for research in agent-based modeling (May 1, 2007) |
| Wi-Fi research picked-up by Arizona Technology Enterprises for commercialization (details are HERE) (March 1, 2007) |
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