Chris Cantell Discusses Technologies: Communication from and to New York researched by Sandra Stoklaskova

Two months ago began a project of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, called New York Talk Exchange (NYTE). Researchers started monitoring a huge amount of electronic streams, which flew to and from New York. They rely on information provided by AT&T, which is one of the largest providers of communications services in the world. This project is not based on collecting gossips, information about individuals, their e-mails, messages , conversations, or to protect national security, emphasize researchers. The aim is to build a census that shows, neighborhood to neighborhood, New York's Internet and telephone links to different cities all over the world. In addition, they want to show how those connections change over time."Our cities and the globe are blanketed with flowing bits of digital data, and looking at this data, we are able to better understand the physical world," said Carlo Ratti, member of team from MIT.AT&T Laboratories collects data on e-mail messages, phone calls, cyber-phone connections and browsing the Web and then they transfer them to MIT in Cambridge, where the data are processed and consistent, analyzed."This fast communication that links the world has made globalization much more intense and much more visible. It gives you a very valuable footprint of the extent to which a country is involved in global communication," said Nayan Chanda, expert for globalization. Moreover he added, that these information could be very interesting form demographers, and people studying economics, telecommunication and business.Very unfamiliar fact was found out by this project, that global talks use to appear at both the top of the economy and its lower end.

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