[Sociam-soton] Re: MIT opens Social Machines Lab - Funded by Twitter

[Dr. Daniel A Smith]

On 2 Oct 2014, at 18:29, electronic Max <emax at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Yup! Became aware of this a few days ago thanks to Dan.
> 
> I know Deb informally, but not very well. He's a slightly unusual
> choice because his background is robotics, not social science nor data
> mining.  One of the things he's known for foremost is the Human
> Speechome project in which he got his graduate students to instrument
> his whole house with microphones to capture the utterances of his new
> kid.  Apparently he released the entire dataset to the public. Not
> sure if anything fantastic has come out of it though.

I was surprised that it wasn’t being led by Sandy when I saw it was coming out of the Media Lab.


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