About Reality Mining
Principal Investigator:
Nathan Eagle (The Santa Fe Institute / MIT)
Senior Faculty Member:
Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland (MIT)
Collaborators:
Aaron Clauset (The Santa Fe Institute)
Stephen Guerin (RedFish)
David Lazer (Harvard)
Mika Raento (Google)
Hannu Verkasalo (HUT)
Peter Wagacha (The Univeristy of Nairobi)
John Quinn (Makerere)
Cosma Shalizi (CMU)
Alessandro Rinaldo (CMU)
Raja Hafiz (CMU)
Caroline Buckee (The Santa Fe Institute / Oxford)
Sune Lehmann (NorthEastern)
Sir Lord Robert May (Oxford)
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye (Louvain)
Marta Gonzales (NorthEastern)
Dirk Brockmann (NorthWestern)
Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford)
Edo Airoldi (Harvard)
Neil Ferguson (Imperial)
Joshua Blumenstock (Berkeley)
Rob Claxton (British Telecom)
Michael Macy (Cornell)
Other Reality Mining Projects:
Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab
MacroSense at Sense Networks
Path Intelligence
Sponsors:
Nokia, British Telecom, Safaricom, MTN, Viva Telecom, IMMI
Press:
Nature -- 4/09 -- "Phoning in Data"
Wired -- 3/09 -- "Kenya is On Call for Mobile Crowdsourcing"
BBC -- 2/09 -- "New service is all in a day’s SMS"
MIT Technology Review -- 1/09 -- "Crowd-Sourcing the World"
New Scientist -- 2/09 -- "Cellphones tap wisdom of the crowds"
Business Weekly -- 2/09 -- "Location, Location, Innovation!"
MIT Technology Review -- 11/08 -- "Sick Searchers Help Track Flu"
Media Daily New -- 10/08 -- "The Future Of Media: Mobile"
BBC News -- 10/08 -- "Mobile tracking reveals spending"
Wired -- 7/08 -- "Clive Thompson on Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook 'Friends'"
Forbes -- 5/08 -- "What Your Cell Phone Knows About You"
BusinessWeek -- 3/08 -- "There's Gold in 'Reality Mining'"
MIT Technology Review -- 3/08 -- "TR10: Reality Mining"
New York Times -- 11/07 -- "The Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far"
MIT Technology Review -- 12/07 -- "What Your Phone Knows About You"
MIT Technology Review -- 6/09/07 -- "The iPhone's Untapped Potential"
PR Newswire -- 2/09/06 -- "Nokia Announces Creation of Forum Nokia Champion Reward Program in Recognition of Outstanding Individual Mobile Applications Developers "
The MIT Technology Review -- 6/09/07 -- "The iPhone's Untapped Potential"
New Scientist -- 11/04 -- "The phone that knows you better than you do"
The New York Times -- 3/05 -- "When a Stranger Calls, From Afar or Nearby"
The Feature -- 4/28/05 -- "Mining Reality"
PC Magazine -- 9/28/05 -- "Social Computing Drives Emerging Applications"
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