Welcome to the future! MIT SENSEable Lab Assoc. Director Assaf Biderman on future cities

[Assaf Biderman is one of the speakers at the upcoming SIME Vienna summit to be held on April 28th]

Assaf  teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the Associate Director of theSENSEable City Laboratory, a research group that explores the “real- time city” by studying the increasing deployment of sensors and networked hand-held electronics, as well as their relationship to the built environment. Biderman’s work focuses on engaging city administrations and industry members worldwide to explore how pressing issues in urbanization are being impacted by a wave of new distributed technologies, and how these can be harnessed to create a more sustainable future living in urban environments.

In the talk below, Assaf explains how future cities will be driven by drivers such as technology becoming smaller but powerful and information increasingly becoming an infrastructure that can communicate in building our future cities.

Assaf is part of developing a futuristic 3-dimensional display that can be projected around anywhere in space, controlled by “little helicopters” that are like 2-D pixels with a LED, a location sensor and wireless communication that can be controlled in real time from any computer.

What’s the application? If all these technology platforms become more open, and gets available to the public, these kind of applications can be used to fuel innovation ranging from giving you timely personal information on “blank screens” , showing you the most relevant ads and applications that we haven’t thought through yet.

Well we say, lets make the future happen!

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1. Objekt der Woche 18/2011 » Wheel, Copenhagen, Woche, System, Daten, Diese » WIENER says:

   May 2, 2011 at 07:03

   [...] “Objekte der Woche 2011″ finden Sie hier – Dank gilt diesmal Assaf Biderman (Associate Diretcor), der das Projekt letzte Woche auf der SIME Vienna 2011 vorgestellt [...]

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