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Press coverage of my research (well, the publications that sent me copies at least)
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Print coverage

	"#Riot: self-organized, hyper-networked revolts—coming to a city near you". Wired (Bill Wasik), January 2012, pp. 76-83 (see page 82)
	"Statement of Dr. Myron P. Gutmann, Assistant Director, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, United States House of Representatives", June 2, 2011 (see page 6)
	"The next generation of GIS: dealing with design in space-time", Arcuser, Spring 2010, pp. 14-15.
	"Игра в людей:Цифровойаналогчеловечества (Game people: the digital equivalent of mankind)", Popular Mechanics (Russia) (Олег Макаров), March 2010, pp. 78-80.

	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

	“Verhaltensforschung: Weisheit der menge (Behavior research: The wisdom of the many)”. Der Spiegel (Frank Thadeusz), May 4, 2009, pp. 142

	"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)

	"Geographer receives Presidential Early Career Award", ASU Insight (Carol Hughes), January 16, 2009, pp. 2

	"US award for Dubliner's study of crowd behaviour", The Irish Times (Denis Staunton), Saturday, December 20, 2008, pp. 13

	"ASU geographer's model predicts crowd behavior", Social Sciences at ASU (Debi Kovach), Spring/Summer 2008, 1(1): p.6

	"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

	"Simulations bring new angle to crowd studies", Reuters (Robert Muir), January 2, 2012

	"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
	"Txch today: virtual rioters", Txchnologist (November 22, 2011)
	"Virtual rioters predict how crowds move", New Scientist (November 15, 2011)
	"Kluge agenten zu fuß" (intelligent agents on foot), Spektrum (August 12, 2011)
	"Exploring crowd behavior in large cities" (.pdf), Research.gov (August 11, 2011)
	"Visual virtual people: a better model for the behavior of crowds", Discover Magazine (April 25, 2011)
	"Process models and dynamic GIS... What GIS needs next" (part 1, part 2), Directions Magazine (Joe Francica) (August 3, 2009)
	"Web 3.0 and the rise of process engines", Vector 1 Magazine (Matt Ball) (July 11, 2009)
	"A crowded world". Science 360 (Diane Banegas) (March 31, 2009)
	"Riot dynamics modeled". LiveScience (Diane Banegas) (March 8, 2009) (also featured on the front page)
	"Virtuální dav pomůže zvládat skutečnou paniku (Virtual crowd helps manage real panic)". Týden (Czech Republic) (March 1, 2009)
	"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)
	"How officials will control the crowds at Obama's inauguration" Popular Mechanics (Philip Taylor), (January 20, 2009)
	"Správanie davu skúmajú vedci v počítači (Scientists examine the behavior of crowds in a computer)" Veda.sme.sk (Slovakia) (Michal Ač), January 8, 2009
	"A crowded world", NSF Discoveries (Diane Banegas), January 5, 2009
	"Megacities: ‘A New Dynamic Organism’", USC News (Diane Ainsworth), November 21, 2008
	"Charting a landscape with Wi-Fi signals", Wi-Fi Networking News (Glenn Flesichmann), April 14, 2008
	"Predicting the future with crowds", Tom's Guide (Mary Branscombe), March 31, 2008
	"Where 2.0", O'Reilly Rader (Brady Forrest), March 27, 2008
	"Seeing the world for what it is", IT Pro (Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe) , March 6, 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
	"Gioca jouer tra le folle. Ecco come (Playing with crowds)", Punto Informatico (Italy) (Luca Annunziata), XII (2912), January 16, 2008
	"Modeling urban panic", Slashdot, January 15, 2008
	"The madding crowd", Frederick News Post (Justin Palk), January 14, 2008 (pdf)
	“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) (Florian Rötzer), 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 programa predice el comportamiento de las masas (A program to predict how the masses will behave)" The Inquirer (Spain) (Diana Delgado), July 1, 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
	“Panica multimilor se trateaza 3D (3D panicking crowds)”, Cotidanul (Romania), June 18, 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
	"Panic on the computer", The Engineer, June 12, 2007 (pdf)
	“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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