Real-time Geo-Awareness Interpolation

Internship ::: WikiCity

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Organisational

SENSEable City Laboratory
Faculty Supervisor: Carlo Ratti


POSSIBILITIES FOR CREDIT OR FOR PAY DURING SUMMER TERM


Project Description

How can a city perform as a real time control system? The WikiCity project deals with the development of real-time location-sensitive tools for the city. It follows the Real-time Rome project that was developed for the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture and which aggregated data from cell phones, buses and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics in real-time (s. also http://senseable.mit.edu/realtimerome).

WikiCity aims at adding further, real-time interaction-oriented layers to Real Time Rome and at making information accessible to users and allow them full control on the database, onto which they can upload and download data. In general, the WikiCity can be considered a new platform for storing, exchanging and processing data which are location and time-sensitive, in the line of ongoing deployment of Web 2.0. As such, it would be a significant leap forward towards a pervasive 'internet of things' to support human action and interaction. (s. also http://senseable.mit.edu/WikiCity)

We are looking for EECS UROPs who are interested in this new research field and who would like to develop new tools for exchanging and processing location- and time-sensitive data or connect environmental monitoring mechanisms to the WikiCity concept.

Competencies

either:

or:
  • visual Java programming
  • interface design
  • interest in composition of distributed services
  • (ontologies and semantic web)
  • Java programming
  • real-time data analysis
  • geospatial technologies and related APIs
  • open standards

Contact

Contact: Please e-mail senseable-applicants@mit.edu with a resume ASAP (at latest June 9th) - first-come-first-serve !