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City's incubator tally swells to 100
By Emily Laermer, Crain's New York Business, March 5th, 2013
New Work City launched in 2008 as the city's first co-working space, an office for freelancers and individuals working from home. Within its first month, it had about 25 members. "There was no place for folks just working from home who wanted to get out of their house and be around other...
Eyes in the sky: Optical tracking data has us asking better questions, but answers remain elusive
By Dan Devine, Yahoo Sports, March 4th, 2013
On Friday afternoon, during the first day of panels at the 2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, NYU-Polytechnic Institute professor Dr. Philip Z. Maymin presented a research paper that looked, in part, at how often individual players speed up and slow down while playing, and where they most...
One Approach Does Not Fit All
The New York Times, February 28th, 2013
As organizations become increasingly global and as technology allows managers to always be “on,” telecommuting and other forms of flexible work arrangements have become commonplace. Yet, some critics urge us to remember the needs of the “human moment” and how crucial face...
NYU-Poly Recognition Continues in 2013
Downtown Brooklyn, February 21st, 2013
After accumulating a slew of awards and positive rankings through 2012, NYU-Poly looks to have kicked off another year of chart-topping with their recent ninth-place ranking as “Best Online Graduate Engineering Program” in the nation by U.S. News. Roughly 860 online programs were...
Startup Offers to Protect Printers, Phones, and Other Devices from Hackers
By Dawn Lim, MIT Technology Review, February 21st, 2013
To most people, office printers are innocuous workplace gathering points—places to complain about the ever-disappearing toner or that colleague who apparently loves killing trees. To Ang Cui, they are high-value targets that give hackers a way to breach sensitive systems and steal trade...
Master Plan Being Drawn Up For Brooklyn "Tech Triangle"
By Jeanine Ramirez, Master Plan Being Drawn Up For Brooklyn "Tech Triangle", February 13th, 2013
Urban planners are looking to bring still more change to Downtown Brooklyn, an area that's undergone significant change in the last decade or so. They're studying several ways to solidify a new technology hub to allow the creative community there to thrive. NY1's Jeanine Ramirez filed...
Artists use data to make political statements
By Nastaran Tavakoli-Far, BBC News, February 7th, 2013
Big data can feel impersonal, overwhelming and cold. But stark statistics are now being used to make intimate statements through art and public advocacy. The past few years have seen the widespread availability of a large amount of data, thanks largely to the internet. Census reports are easily...
Ed Koch Dies; Outspoken Mayor Brought N.Y. Back From The Brink
By Joel Rose, NPR, February 1st, 2013
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, whose larger-than-life personality was well-suited to the nation's biggest city but could also get him in trouble, has died. He was 88. His spokesman, George Arzt, says Koch passed away early Friday from congestive heart failure. Koch was famous for asking...
Ed Koch's legacy: A city bursting with free expression
By Jonathan Soffer, Daily News, February 1st, 2013
What was Ed Koch's legacy as mayor? As an urban historian and his biographer, I could give you the wonky answers: his highly successful housing program, his key role in restoring the city's finances, and his work in laying the groundwork for municipal administration for the next quarter...
At the Opening of the NYU-Poly Greenhouse
Downtown Brooklyn, January 31st, 2013
“We were all stuck one floor up, all using one office. It was the only place to go where a space was available,” said Shirley Wu, who is in her final year of an MSc in Management of Technology at NYU-Poly. She described the space where she and other members of a student-run organization...
