LIFT07: Nathan Eagle
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Research Scientist
Organization: MIT
Nathan Eagle is a Research Scientist at the MIT Design Laboratory. He is currently involved in the creation of MIT's EPROM (Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles) initiative both at MIT and the University of Nairobi, where he is a Visiting Lecturer. EPROM's key activities include the development of new applications for mobile phone users worldwide, academic research using mobile phones, and the creation of a widely applicable mobile phone programming curriculum. During his doctorate at the MIT Media Lab, he focused on projects that spanned a variety of disciplines from appropriate technology to artificial intelligence. His dissertation on machine perception and learning of complex social systems explored the intersections of social network analysis, machine learning, and signal processing.

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Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control


Today we are witnessing the fastest technology adoption in human history. Currently the number of mobile phone users in the developing world have now surpassed those in the developed world (1.4 billion vs. 1.2 billion). My talk will focus on how these devices and the behavioral data they generate can be repurposed in all sorts of empowering ways...

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I'm currently looking for others with experience manipulating, analyzing and visualizing large networks ie: hundreds of millions of nodes and billions of links. But I'm also always happy to talk mobile phones.

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