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PROFESSOR: OK, very
briefly, EyeSpot,

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a project we are doing in
the Senseable City Lab.

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But let me tell you a couple of
words about Senseable City Lab.

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It's a new research
group here at MIT.

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It's in between the Media Lab
and Urban Studies and Planning.

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Well, what do we do there?

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What we do is look at this.

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That's yesterday's wireless.

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That's Marconi's
Cape Cod Station.

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Look at all of that steel,
and engine, and the energy,

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and amount of effort,
just to transmit

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a few bits of information
across the Atlantic.

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Now look at today's wireless.

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It's more like this.

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And you can actually transmit
much more information

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using that.

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And what we're doing is
rethink in a creative way

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the interface between
people, mobile technology,

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and the city.

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Now concerning
EyeSpot, this project

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is based on the MIT campus.

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That's what you see there.

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So most of you are familiar
with Boston and MIT.

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And the interesting thing is
that if you talk to anybody

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at MIT, they will tell you there
is a big revolution happening.

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And this revolution is in
the way people live and work.

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And it's brought by laptop
computers and Wi-Fi.

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So if you look at this, this is
how people used to work here.

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And this is more like today.

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Now, this is a bit
biased, as you see we.

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Could find the worst possible
image of a computer room--

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dull, boring, natural light.

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And this is a sunny.

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Day it's not like today.

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But the thing is that
there's a big change.

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And what we are trying to do
with EyeSpot is try to define

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and see how the
change is happening,

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and quantify this by allowing
people to locate themselves,

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actually, with a
few-meter accuracy using

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the Wi-Fi network.

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And so it's a unique
case study that we

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are starting to monitor,
where we got 20,000 people

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in the MIT campus,
a big urban chunk,

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with 3,000 access points.

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That's quite a bit.

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If you think that
cities like Philadelphia

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actually are planning to cover
all of the city with Wi-Fi

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in the next couple of years,
and that's less than 3,000,

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less than the number we
have of access points.

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This high density means that we
can locate everybody with just

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a few-meters accuracy.

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This is just a map with
some of the access points.

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And actually, I'll show you
the two maps for the project

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you'll see at the museum.

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Oops.

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The first type of map
is a map that shows you,

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in real time, the activity
going on the network,

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and how many people are
working in different parts

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of the campus.

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So you get this type
of map changing.

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You don't see very well here,
but you'll see it better

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at the museum.

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And the second map is this one.

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That's like the
heartbeat of MIT.

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Now, what you see here
is total activity going

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on on the campus in real time.

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And you see the past week.

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So what you see
here is all of MIT.

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And that's actually
a standard day.

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You see people coming
in, working 9:00 to 5:00,

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and then actually,
students keeping on working

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quite late, even during IAP.

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And then you've got a peak
and a minimum at 6:00 AM.

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And then you've
got the next day.

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It's interesting-- Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday,

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when most of the 9:00 to
5:00 activity disappears,

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and actually, you've got just
the remaining part of the curve

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happening, activity is slipping
down on Friday evening--

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people going out--
and on Sunday,

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when you're starting
to panic again

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about Monday and the next week.

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And then there's another peak.

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And then what you
see here is you

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can do this in every
room on the campus.

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And what you see here, for
instance, is this actual room.

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And you see most of the week,
it was pretty no activity.

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And look at today.

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And today, you can get
actually up to 25 users, which

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is the number of laptops--

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I counted earlier today--

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of people connected to the
wireless internet here.

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And you see it here.

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That's today, Monday.

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It will appear in a minute.

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Anyway, you'll see
the demo at the--

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yeah, here you see the
spike, today's activity.

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And you'll see the
demo at the museum.

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Just a couple of things
about, just to conclude--

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another project we have is
actually with a soccer team.

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Being Italian, I am very
proud of this project.

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And it's with AC Milan.

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And here, we are tracking,
actually, players

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with a couple of centimeter
accuracy in real time,

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and then developing artificial
intelligence algorithms

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in order to study their
movement and optimize strategy.

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So we get this type of
traces, and then analyze them.

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And then, we've got a number of
other projects really dealing

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with technology and space, how
technology and space interface.

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This is funded through a
Senseable City Consortium

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that's sort of bringing together
the different, the key actors,

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being part of this
revolution from network

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operators, hardware
companies, urban hardware,

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and public administration.

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But that's it.

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I think if you'd like to have a
chat, it will be at the museum.

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Thanks a lot.

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AUDIENCE: Thank you very much.

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