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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)
Print | Video | Radio | Online magazines
Print coverage
 
 "Weird and wired: Where 2.0", GIS Professional Magazine (Andrew Coote), August issue, 2008, pp. 34-36
   
 Facing the crowds: Preventing disaster in an unruly world”, Discover Magazine (Matthew Hutson), April issue, 2008, pp. 10-11
   
 "Predicting panic", Futures (Cynthia Wagner), November/December, 2007, pp. 68-69
   
 "Model behavior", Architect (John Gendall), October, 2007, pp. 45-46
   
 "Future watch: Geosimulation", PC Magazine (Eric Rhey) , August , 2007, pp. 19
 
 "Folle digitale (digital crowds)", Il Corriere Della Sera, Casamica (Italy) (Marco Consoli), July/August, 2007, pp. 31
 
 "Demonstrationen: Randale-Forschung (demonstration: rampage research)", Vanity Fair (Germany) (Ranty Islom), May, 2007, pp. 73
 
 "Geographer's computer model helps predict crowd behavior", ASU Insight (Carla Mitchell & Carol Hughes), May 25, 2007, pp. 1, 7
   

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

 
Video coverage  
   
 "Model predicts mob behavior", Live Science (Andrea Thompson) (and video on Imaginova), June, 2007
 
Radio coverage  
   
 "Main topic: Interview with Paul Torrens", Very Spatial (June 3, 2007). (Audio as .mp3 and as .aac.)
   
 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).)
 
Online magazines  
   
"Charting a landscape with Wi-Fi signals", Wi-Fi Networking News (Glenn Flesichmann), April 14, 2008
"What future tech will bring", Forbes (Victoria Barrett) , March 11, 2008
"The sim that saves people from each other", Discover, March 5, 2008
Wi-Fi cloud hovers over Salt Lake City: Researchers map the invisible geography of wireless networks”, IEEE Spectrum (Jeremy Hsu) , February 28, 2008
"Modeling urban panic", Slashdot (January 15, 2008)
 Tömegtüntetést és katasztrófát szimulál az új szoftver (New software predicts mass demonstration catastrophes)”, Figyelő Net (Hungary), (September 19, 2007)
 Szimulátor embertömegek mozgására (Simulating crowd motion)”, SG Information Technology (Hungary), (September 18, 2007)
 Kontrolle von Menschenmengen  (Crowd control)”, Heise (Germany), (September 17, 2007)
 La folla si muove in laboratorio (The crowd moves in laboratory)”, Io Architetto (Italy), (August 28, 2007)
 Cum se misca multimile (How to move the masses)”, Descopera (Romania), (July 12, 2007)
 Come si muove la folla (As the crowd moves)”, Galileo (Italy), (July 12, 2007)
 Future watch: Geosimulation”, PC Magazine, (July 11, 2007)
 Folla digitale (Digital crowd)”, Il Corriere della Sera, Casamica (Italy), (July 10, 2007)
 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)
 La folla in laboratorio (Crowd in a laboratory)”, Focus (Italy), (June 25, 2007)
 Virtual crowding”, Seed/Page 3.14/Science Blogs, (June 19, 2007)
 Russia's GT Market have a feature on my work (June 17, 2007)
 Кибергеограф воспроизвел городскую толпу (Reproducing urban crowds”, Dialog-21 (Russia), (June 15, 2007)
 Model predicts mob behavior”, Live Science, (June 14, 2007)
ASU geographer’s crowd behavior model wins grant”, The Business Journal (Phoenix and Denver issues), (June 1, 2007)
 Wi-Fi geographies - analyzing Wi-Fi infrastructures”, Very Spatial, (May 22, 2007)
 Crowd modeling research in the news, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here (May 21, 2007)
 

 

 

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