{"586493":{"#nid":"586493","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Carl DiSalvo Awarded Grant to Construct and Archive Environmental Data","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECarl DiSalvo has been awarded a grant with Ellen Zegura and Amanda Meng that will support digital civics efforts. The title of the project is \u0026quot;Developing a Robust Archive of Environmental Data to Support Smart Cities Initiatives,\u0026quot; and through the project they will construct and archive environmental data by accessing archival materials and working with community residents to collect contemporary data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe grant comes from the Institute for People and Technology who just piloted their first Smart \u0026amp; Connected Communities Data Grant program. These pilot grants \u0026quot;provide funding for one semester to further interdisciplinary research within the area of Smart \u0026amp; Connected Communities.\u0026quot; The grants support data centric projects that plan to do at least one of the following:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECreate new forms of smart city data\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELeverage and making available legacy city data\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPrototype targeted uses of smart city data\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program will result in new collections of smart city data that can be made available to the Georgia Tech research community and new prototypes for working with that data. In addition to DiSalvo, the following six projects received funding:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EToward Reality-Virtuality Integrated Smart Cities: Understanding Urban Scale Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Human Interactions Through a Reality Data-Rich Virtual Atlanta \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJohn E. Taylor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESmart Cities Data Platform Development \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDennis Shelden, School of Architecture\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESensing Traffic Conditions to Model and Predict Rider Stress\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChristopher Le Dantec, School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nKari Watkins, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDeveloping a Robust Archive of Environmental Data to Support Smart Cities Initiatives \u003C\/em\u003EAmanda Meng, College of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEllen Zegura, College of Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCarl DiSalvo, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMaking Legacy Data Available and Accessible for the Smart City \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJennifer Clark, Center for Urban Innovation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThomas Lodato, Center for Urban Innovation\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWind Speed and Acoustic Activity Extensions to the Tech Climate Network \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMatthew Swarts, Center for Geographic Information Systems, IMAGINE Lab, IPDL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBrian Stone, Urban Climate Lab, SCaRP\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nNoah Posner, Center for Geographic Information Systems, IMAGINE Lab, IPDL\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENote: Original story from IPat \u0026quot;Announcing: 2017\u0026nbsp;Institute for People and Technology Smart \u0026amp; Connected Communities Data Pilot Grants\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Carl DiSalvo receives Smart \u0026 Connected Communities Data Pilot Grant from the Institute for People and Technology."}],"uid":"33621","created_gmt":"2017-01-26 17:41:24","changed_gmt":"2017-01-26 17:41:24","author":"Morgan Orangi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"577981","name":"Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center (DILAC)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}