by
Prof.Scott Kirkpatrick(School of Engineering and CS, HUJI)
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Europe/Stockholm
Description
Most of us now carry in our pockets a package of powerful sensors, connected to the internet. These make possible near real-time monitoring, in aggregate, of the health of our infrastructures, both physical and electronic, and ourselves. I'll describe some recent progress in gathering and interpreting smartphone-based measurements from about 1% of the population in several large US cities. Managing the tradeoffs between personal privacy and social benefits becomes easier as the degree of coverage increases.
