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SUMMARY:Good City Life
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DESCRIPTION:Daniele Quercia\nThe corporate smart-city rhetoric is about ef
 ficiency\, predictability\, and security. “You’ll get to work on time\
 ; no queue when you go shopping\, and you are safe because of CCTV cameras
  around you”. Well\, all these things make a city acceptable\, but they 
 don’t make a city great. We are launching goodcitylife.org - a global gr
 oup of like-minded people who are passionate about building technologies w
 hose focus is not necessarily to create a smart city but to give a good li
 fe to city dwellers. The future of the city is\, first and foremost\, abou
 t people\, and those people are increasingly networked. We will see how a 
 creative use of network-generated data can tackle hitherto unanswered rese
 arch questions. Can we rethink existing mapping tools [happy-maps]? Is it 
 possible to capture smellscapes of entire cities and celebrate good odors 
 [smelly-maps]? And soundscapes [chatty-maps]?\n\n[happy-maps] http://www.t
 ed.com/talks/daniele_quercia_happy_maps\n[smelly-maps] http://goodcitylife
 .org/smellymaps/index.html\n[chatty-maps] http://goodcitylife.org/chattyma
 ps/index.html\n\nDaniele Quercia leads the Social Dynamics group at Bell L
 abs in Cambridge (UK). He has been named one of Fortune magazine's 2014 Da
 ta All-Stars\, and spoke about “happy maps” at TED. His research has b
 een focusing in the area of urban informatics and received best paper awar
 ds from Ubicomp 2014 and from ICWSM 2015\, and an honourable mention from 
 ICWSM 2013. He was Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs\, a Horizon senior res
 earcher at the University of Cambridge\, and Postdoctoral Associate at the
  department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He received his PhD from
  UC London. His thesis was sponsored by Microsoft Research and was nominat
 ed for BCS Best British PhD dissertation in Computer Science.\n\nWeb: www.
 researchswinger.org
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