Published on December 18th, 2018The Social IT Solutions workshop, supported by J-WEL at MIT, will equip undergraduate and graduate computer science students at the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) and the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) with interdisciplinary knowledge and skills in the areas of information communication technologies (ICT) for development, digital media, […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
29 posts
Published on December 18th, 2018A blog post by Kari Stromhaug. The back-to-back impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Sept. 6 and 20, 2017 brought devastation that Puerto Rico had never before experienced. Irma knocked out power for a million residents on the island and destroyed dozens of homes. When […]
Published on December 11th, 2018A blog post by Research Assistant Rachel Thompson ’19. Self-driving cars, home insurance rates, drone surveillance, and water resources management might seem like disparate areas, but the truth is that if it can be mapped, chances are it requires GIS, lidar, or both. GIS, standing for […]
Published on November 30th, 2018A blog post by GMTaC Affiliate Graduate Student Alan Zhang. Moving the Future is a conference at Harvard Business School hosted jointly by the Aerospace and Aviation Club and Transportation, Infrastructure, and Logistics Club. I attended panel discussions and keynotes led by industry executives, and came […]
Published on November 30th, 2018A blog post by Kari Stromhaug. It seems like we hear about a new disaster every few weeks — or even every few days. There are always campaigns popping up on Facebook encouraging donations for the latest disaster. And in the repeated news coverage, social media […]
Published on November 21st, 2018 Call for Submissions Disaster Media: A thematic stream for the journal Media+Environment; seeking to explore media, space, and the geopolitical quandaries of visualizing and mobilizing disaster relief; edited by Janet Walker and Lisa Parks. This “Disaster Media” stream is slated for publication in the first […]
Published on November 17th, 2018Koi, the colored carp(锦鲤 Jinli), has long been held as a symbol of good fortune in the Chinese culture. As told in a fairly well-known folk tale, koi in the Yellow River would swim against the tide towards the dragon-gate mountain, and those who can leap […]
Published on November 16th, 2018A blog post by GMTaC Affiliate Graduate Student Alan Zhang. A tremendous amount of human activity plays out in space. Commercial, military, and non-governmental organizations operate projects across various orbits around our planet. However, as space is out of view for most people, the public imagination […]
Published on November 9th, 2018A blog post by Visiting Graduate Student Gabriel Pereira & Research Assistant Iago Bojczuk Introduction to Zap Zap* *The affectionate way many Brazilians refer to WhatsApp. WhatsApp is a self-defined “fast, simple, secure messaging and calling” app. Its meteoric growth in the decade since the January 2009 […]