[Colloquium] Thursday 11/8 | Charlie Catlett at the Computational Social Science Workshop

Mon Nov 5 14:17:17 CST 2018

THE COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP PRESENTSCHARLIE CATLETTFOUNDING
DIRECTOR OF THE URBAN CENTER FOR COMPUTATION AND DATA, SENIOR COMPUTER
SCIENTIST AT ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY, AND SENIOR FELLOW AT THE MANSUETO
INSTITUTE FOR URBAN INNOVATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOTHE UNIVERSITY
OF CHICAGO

The Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>at the University
of Chicago cordially invites you to attend this week’s talk:

UNDERSTANDING CITIES THROUGH MEASUREMENT AND EMBEDDED INTELLIGENCE
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/charlie_catlett>

Summary: Urbanization is one of the great challenges and opportunities of
this century, inextricably tied to global challenges ranging from climate
change to sustainable use of energy and natural resources, and from
personal health and safety to accelerating innovation and education. There
is a growing science community—spanning nearly every discipline—pursuing
research related to these challenges. For many urban questions, however,
there is a need for measurements with greater spatial and/or temporal
resolution than is currently available for understanding air quality,
microclimate, vibration, noise, and other factors. Concurrently, many
measurements—from the flow of people through a public space to the impact
of at-grade rail crossings on emergency response—require more sophisticated
“measurements” involving embedded, or “edge” computing within the urban
infrastructure. Catlett will discuss the Array of Things initiative that
Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago are doing in
partnership with the City of Chicago and a growing number of cities around
the world, involving novel remotely programmable embedded measurement
systems. Catlett will also discuss efforts to build computational models
encompassing multiple facets of cities, ranging from transportation to
weather to energy to social-economic factors.

THURSDAY, 11/8/201811:00AM-12:20PMKENT 120

A light lunch will be provided by Papa John’s.

Charlie Catlett is the founding director of the Urban Center for
Computation and Data, UrbanCCD, which brings social, physical, and
computational scientists together with artists, architects, technologists,
and policy makers to explore urban dynamics and design. He is also a Senior
Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a Senior Fellow at
the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at The University of Chicago.
>From 2007 to 2011 he was the Chief Information Officer at Argonne National
Laboratory, and from 2004 to 2007 he was Director of the National Science
Foundation’s TeraGrid initiative - a nationally distributed supercomputing
facility involving fifteen universities and federal laboratories. From 1999
to 2004 Charlie directed the design and deployment of I-WIRE, a dedicated
fiber optic network funded by the State of Illinois, which connects
research institutions in the Chicago area and downstate Illinois to support
advanced research and education. In recent years he has created a new form
of urban measurement infrastructure, the “Array of Things,” implementing
new sensing and edge computing technologies. Before joining the University
of Chicago and Argonne in 2000, Charlie was Chief Technology Officer at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of
Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Beginning at NCSA’s founding in 1985 he
participated in the development of NSFNET, one of several early national
networks that evolved into what we now experience as the Internet. During
the exponential growth of the web following the release of NCSA’s Mosaic
web browser, his team developed and supported NCSA’s scalable web server
infrastructure. Recognized one of 25 “Doers, Dreamers & Drivers” of 2016 by
Government Technology magazine and in 2014 as one of Chicago’s “Tech 50”
technology leaders by Crain’s Chicago Business, Charlie is a Computer
Engineering graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Some suggested background:

   - Attached in Repository: AoT User Workshop Report (includes links on
   last page as well)
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/charlie_catlett/blob/master/AoT-User-Workshop-Final-compressed.pdf>
   - AoT Website: https://arrayofthings.github.io
   - Attached in Repository: AoT paper
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/charlie_catlett/blob/master/AoT-Lessons-FINAL-ieee.pdf>
   - Attached in Repository: Waggle paper
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/charlie_catlett/blob/master/Waggle_Beckman_IEEE_Sensors2016.pdf>
   - Article about Urban Modeling project:
   https://www.anl.gov/article/exascale-and-the-city
   - AoT data download and analysis tools and tutorials:
   https://aot-file-browser.plenar.io

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The 2018-2019 Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>meets Thursdays
from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Kent 120. All interested faculty and graduate
students are welcome.

Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program are
expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the issues
page
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/zizi_papacharissi/issues>of
the workshop’s public repository on GitHub.
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/zizi_papacharissi> Further
instructions are documented in the Computational Social Science
Workshop’s README
on Github. <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/README>
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