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| Dr. Paul M. Torrens, ASU School of Geographical Sciences, torrens at geosimulation dot com | ||||||
| Press coverage of my research (well, the publications that sent me copies at least) | |
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| Print coverage | |
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Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences in the Federal Context (United States Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Science and Technology Council), June 27, 2009; front cover and p.48 |
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“Verhaltensforschung: Weisheit der menge (Behavior research: The wisdom of the many)”. Der Spiegel (Frank Thadeusz), May 4, 2009, pp. 142 |
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"The trouble with crowds: The scientists working to prevent another Hillsborough", BBC Focus Magazine (Edward Chipperfield), issue 201, April 1, 2009, pp. 54-59 (also featured on the front cover) |
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"Geographer receives Presidential Early Career Award", ASU Insight (Carol Hughes), January 16, 2009, pp. 2 |
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"US award for Dubliner's study of crowd behaviour", The Irish Times (Denis Staunton), Saturday, December 20, 2008, pp. 13 |
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"ASU geographer's model predicts crowd behavior", Social Sciences at ASU (Debi Kovach), Spring/Summer 2008, 1(1): p.6 |
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"Weird and wired: Where 2.0", GIS Professional Magazine (Andrew Coote), August issue, 2008, pp. 34-36 |
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“Facing the crowds: Preventing disaster in an unruly world”, Discover Magazine (Matthew Hutson), April issue, 2008, pp. 10-11 |
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"Predicting panic", Futures (Cynthia Wagner), November/December, 2007, pp. 68-69 |
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"Model behavior", Architect (John Gendall), October, 2007, pp. 45-46 |
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"Future watch: Geosimulation", PC Magazine (Eric Rhey) , August , 2007, pp. 19 |
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"Folle digitale (digital crowds)", Il Corriere Della Sera, Casamica (Italy) (Marco Consoli), July/August, 2007, pp. 31 |
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"Demonstrationen: Randale-Forschung (demonstration: rampage research)", Vanity Fair (Germany) (Ranty Islom), May, 2007, pp. 73 |
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"Geographer's computer model helps predict crowd behavior", ASU Insight (Carla Mitchell & Carol Hughes), May 25, 2007, pp. 1, 7 |
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“Automates cellulaires et systèmes multi-agents: Mettez de la vie dans vos SIG! (Cellular automata and multi-agent systems: Put life in your GIS!”, Urbao (France) (Laurent Perrin), May, 2001, pp. 34-37 |
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| Video coverage | |
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"Model predicts mob behavior", Live Science (Andrea Thompson) (and video on Imaginova), June, 2007 |
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Interview with Canadian Broadcast Corporation's, CBC Radio 1 "As it happens" (May 22, 2007) [my section begins at time-point 15:00] (Audio is here (.wmv).) |
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| Online magazines | |
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"Process models and dynamic GIS... What GIS needs next" (part 1, part 2), Directions Magazine (Joe Francica) (August 3, 2009) |
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"Web 3.0 and the rise of process engines", Vector 1 Magazine (Matt Ball) (July 11, 2009) |
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"A crowded world". Science 360 (Diane Banegas) (March 31, 2009) |
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"Riot dynamics modeled". LiveScience (Diane Banegas) (March 8, 2009) (also featured on the front page) |
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"Virtuální dav pomůže zvládat skutečnou paniku (Virtual crowd helps manage real panic)". Týden (Czech Republic) (March 1, 2009) |
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"Researchers in ‘early career’ lauded for work to revolutionize engineering and industry" Engineering News Record (Debra K. Rubin) (February 22, 2009) (also featured on the front page) |
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"How officials will control the crowds at Obama's inauguration" Popular Mechanics (Philip Taylor), (January 20, 2009) |
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"Správanie davu skúmajú vedci v počítači (Scientists examine the behavior of crowds in a computer)" Veda.sme.sk (Slovakia) (Michal Ač), January 8, 2009 |
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"A crowded world", NSF Discoveries (Diane Banegas), January 5, 2009 |
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"Megacities: ‘A New Dynamic Organism’", USC News (Diane Ainsworth), November 21, 2008 |
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"Charting a landscape with Wi-Fi signals", Wi-Fi Networking News (Glenn Flesichmann), April 14, 2008 |
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"Predicting the future with crowds", Tom's Guide (Mary Branscombe), March 31, 2008 |
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"Where 2.0", O'Reilly Rader (Brady Forrest), March 27, 2008 |
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"Seeing the world for what it is", IT Pro (Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe) , March 6, 2008 |
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"What future tech will bring", Forbes (Victoria Barrett), March 11,2008 |
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"The sim that saves people from each other", Discover, March 5, 2008 |
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“Wi-Fi cloud hovers over Salt Lake City: Researchers map the invisible geography of wireless networks”, IEEE Spectrum (Jeremy Hsu), February 28, 2008 |
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"Gioca jouer tra le folle. Ecco come (Playing with crowds)", Punto Informatico (Italy) (Luca Annunziata), XII (2912), January 16, 2008 |
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"Modeling urban panic", Slashdot, January 15, 2008 |
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“Tömegtüntetést és katasztrófát szimulál az új szoftver (New software predicts mass demonstration catastrophes)”, Figyelő Net (Hungary), September 19, 2007 |
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“Szimulátor embertömegek mozgására (Simulating crowd motion)”, SG Information Technology (Hungary), September 18, 2007 |
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“Kontrolle von Menschenmengen (Crowd control)”, Heise (Germany) (Florian Rötzer), September 17, 2007 |
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“La folla si muove in laboratorio (The crowd moves in laboratory)”, Io Architetto (Italy), August 28, 2007 |
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“Cum se misca multimile (How to move the masses)”, Descopera (Romania), July 12, 2007 |
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“Come si muove la folla (As the crowd moves)”, Galileo (Italy), July 12, 2007 |
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“Future watch: Geosimulation”, PC Magazine, July 11, 2007 |
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“Folla digitale (Digital crowd)”, Il Corriere della Sera, Casamica (Italy), July 10, 2007 |
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"Un programa predice el comportamiento de las masas (A program to predict how the masses will behave)" The Inquirer (Spain) (Diana Delgado), July 1, 2007 |
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“Un modelo informático para predecir el comportamiento de las muchedumbres (A computer science model to predict the behavior of crowds)”, Sólociencia (Spain), June 25, 2007 |
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“La folla in laboratorio (Crowd in a laboratory)”, Focus (Italy), June 25, 2007 |
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“Virtual crowding”, Seed/Page 3.14/Science Blogs, June 19, 2007 |
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“Panica multimilor se trateaza 3D (3D panicking crowds)”, Cotidanul (Romania), June 18, 2007 |
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Russia's GT Market have a feature on my work, June 17, 2007 |
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“Кибергеограф воспроизвел городскую толпу (Reproducing urban crowds”, Dialog-21 (Russia), (June 15, 2007) |
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“Model predicts mob behavior”, Live Science, June 14, 2007 |
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“ASU geographer’s crowd behavior model wins grant”, The Business Journal (Phoenix and Denver issues), June 1, 2007 |
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“Wi-Fi geographies - analyzing Wi-Fi infrastructures”, Very Spatial, May 22, 2007 |
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