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Startup News: The Library of Congress Has a Twitter Problem
By Myles Tanzer, Betabeat.com, January 4th, 2013
API Rate Limit Exceeded Back in April of 2010, the Library of Congress promised to add every tweet up to that date to its famous archives. But like anyone following too many people at once, it’s just caused one big mess. The library now has an archive of approximately 170 billion tweets...
Dumbo incubator space graduates its first startup
By Christopher Cameron, therealdeal.com, January 2nd, 2013
The Polytechnic Institute of New York University’s incubator in Dumbo, which subleases discounted communal workspace to tech startups, has produced its first graduate, Crain’s reported. TENDIGI, an iPad and iPhone app developer for various industries that was one of the first starups...
Startup TENDIGI leaves the nest
By Ali Elkin, Crain's New York, January 2nd, 2013
A Dumbo, Brooklyn, startup incubator has "graduated" its first company. TENDIGI, an iPad and iPhone app developer for various industries, is the first startup to outgrow the Polytechnic Institute of New York University incubator in Dumbo. It was one of the first startups selected for the...
The Fish of the Future
By Rebecca Kranz with Andrea Gwosdow, PhD, Whatayear, January 1st, 2013
Go to any aquarium, or even your local pet store, and you’ll quickly observe that many fish species travel in packs. Packs of fish—or schools, as they’re known—are composed of both leaders and followers, but scientists know very little about what characteristics make good...
NYU-Poly Researchers Find Weakness in Facebook’s Protections for Minors
Technoverse blog, December 20th, 2012
Social media and our too-much-information online culture has brought new life to an old privacy vulnerability. The kind of privacy loophole I’m referring to has actually been around pre-Internet. This old idea is to use a few known and relatively unique personal attributes to match against...
You Are All Soft! Embrace Chaos!
By Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, December 16th, 2012
A reader could easily run out of adjectives to describe Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s new book “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder.” The first ones that come to mind are: maddening, bold, repetitious, judgmental, intemperate, erudite, reductive, shrewd, self-indulgent, self-...
Wireless Communications in the Massively Broadband® Era
By Theodore S. Rappaport, Microwave Journal, December 14th, 2012
As the cellular industry rolls out fourth-generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) across the world, one has to believe that we are witnessing the dawn of an amazing new era, where wireless becomes so pervasive and intertwined with everything we do in life, just as the pen and paper are today. We are...
Rappaport: Wireless communications are resurgent
By Elaine Walsh, EWA, Urgent Communications, December 13th, 2012
A standing-room-only crowd was compelled by a tour de force talk called "The Coming Renaissance of the Wireless Communications Age," which was delivered by Dr. Ted Rappaport at the Enterprise Wireless 2012 Leadership Summit on Oct. 11 in Nashville, Tenn. The holder of more than 100...
Redwan Hussain: the bridge
By Stefan Melnyk, Washington Square News, December 13th, 2012
If stereotype suggests that engineers are a reclusive and slightly obsessive lot, then Redwan Hussain embodies a crushing rebuttal. Smartly dressed yet laid-back, in love with his work yet nevertheless amiably accessible, it should come as no surprise that Hussain has been instrumental in bridging...
Seawalls for Sea Gate: Sandy prompts calls for construction
By Eric Shawn, Fox News, December 5th, 2012
Keith Gordon's house in the private Sea Gate community on the tip of Coney Island in Brooklyn, the one in which he grew up, lived in for 40 years and raised a family, is now just a pile of rubble. "It's a tragedy that I could never think in the whole world, would happen," he told...
