Fwd: FW: Talk Sep 11 - Urban Computing with City Dynamics

[George Duncan-2]

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Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Subject: FW: Talk Sep 11 - Urban Computing with City Dynamics
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Hello All,

Some of you might find this talk interesting.

Krishnan

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Title: Urban Computing with City Dynamics
Place: Newell Simon Hall 1507 Tuesday Sep 11th @ 2pm
Speaker: Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia

Abstract:
Urban computing is emerging as a concept where every sensor, device, person,
vehicle, building, and street in the urban areas can be used as a component
to probe city dynamics to further enable city-wide computing for serving
people and their cities.

Urban computing aims to enhance both human life and urban environment
smartly through a recurrent process of sensing, mining, understanding, and
improving. Urban computing also aims to deeply understand the nature and
sciences behind the phenomenon occurring in urban spaces, using a variety of
heterogeneous data sources reflecting city dynamics, such as traffic flows,
human mobility, geographic and map data, environment, energy consumption,
populations, and economics.

In this talk, we will present our recent research on urban computing with
city dynamics, introducing innovative application scenarios and the
technology for integrating and mining heterogeneous city dynamics, such as,
finding smart driving directions based on taxi trajectories, identify
different functional regions (e.g., residential and commercial
areas) in urban spaces using both POIs and human mobility, gleaning the
problematic city configurations, and anomaly detection in road traffic flows
(these examples have been published in top-tier conferences and journals
recently, such as KDD, UbiComp, ICDE).

More details can be found on this page
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/urbancomputing/default.aspx

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Bio: Dr. Yu Zheng is a lead researcher from Microsoft Research Asia.
He is an IEEE senior member and ACM senior member. His research interests
include location-based services, spatio-temporal data mining, ubiquitous
computing, and mobile social applications. He has published over 50 referred
papers at high-quality international conferences and journals, such as
SIGMOD, SIGKDD, AAAI, ICDE, WWW, Ubicomp, and IEEE TKDE, where he has
received 3 best paper awards as well as 1 best paper nominee and a number of
most cited papers. These papers have also been featured by top-tier presses
like MIT Technology Review multiple times.
In addition, he has been serving over 30 prestigious international
conferences as a chair or a program committee member, including ICDE, KDD,
Ubicomp, and IJCAI, etc. So far, he has received 3 technical transfer awards
from Microsoft and 20 granted/filed patents. In 2008, he was recognized as
the Microsoft Golden Star.

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