[FRIAM] Lecture: Tuesday Feb 20, 1:30p: Fabio Carrera - Knowledge Farming and the Long Tail of Small Cities

[Douglas Roberts]

And not only that, tomorrow is Fat Tuesday!  If you're in town and feel like
being led on a pub crawl by the Los Alamos Hill Stompers Band, check it
out.  We start around 4:30pm MST at Del Charro, corner of Don Gaspar and
Alameda.

http://www.santafeartsandculture.org/calendar/view-event-details/calendar/num/26003/


--Doug

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On 2/19/07, Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at redfish.com> wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> Fabio Carrera will be giving a talk tomorrow at our office. Please forward
> to
> anyone that may be interested.
>
> And Fabio will be up at SFI at 3:30p on Tuesday for a tour. I'm not sure
> who is
> hosting...
>
> -Steve
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> ** Note day and time **
> ** Tuesday, 1:30p **
>
> SPEAKER: Dr. Fabio Carrera
>         Visiting Lecturer - MIT Urban Information Systems group
>         Director of City Lab - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
>
> TITLE: Knowledge Farming and the Long Tail of Small Cities
>
> TIME: Tuesday, February 20, @ 1:30p
> LOCATION: 624 Agua Fria Conference Room
>
> ABSTRACT: The presentation will introduce the concept of "City Knowledge"
> and
> provide insights about how municipalities can get beyond the typical
> "hunting
> and gathering" of data and move towards a more sustainable "farming" of
> information in support of day-to-day decision-making for urban
> maintenance,
> management and planning activities.  Based on hands-on experiences in
> cities
> like Venice, London and Boston, the presentation will then discuss some
> power-laws that suggest how and where urban data farming should be
> implemented
> to maximize the impact of these concepts for the improvement of municipal
> services and the benefit of urban dwellers.
>
>
>
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