Urban Sensing, Social Networking, And The Third Thing

Google TechTalks March 17, 2006 Jeff Burke Dana Cuff Deborah Estrin Michael Hamilton Mark Hansen William Kaiser Jerry Kang Fabian Wagmister ABSTRACT Sensors and their data will dominate tomorrow's global network. Location-tagged images and sound, captured from mobile phones, will intersect with data from municipal monitoring of city infrastructure and embedded sensors placed by citizens. Social networking applications built on tagged media are already flourishing. Intrinsically data-centric features will soon come to networking, providing low-level capabilities to verify location, aggregate sources, control resolution and implement privacy policies, all for data that originates in the...