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Assaf Biderman: When the City Starts Talking

Colleen Kaman ( Bio / Posts ) | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 UTC

Assaf Biderman, associate director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab spoke at PopTech 2009 about a number of the lab’s projects that explore how technology is transforming urban spaces. One project traced flows of garbage in Seattle in order to better understand the waste removal process in cities disposal. Another illustrates the global exchange of data between New York and other cities around the world.

Last week, PopTech caught up with Assaf to learn more about the lab’s latest initiative, “The Copenhagen Wheel,” that aims to help cities and individuals combat climate change, and about the value of combining real-time data with other kinds of information.