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Dr. Anthony Townsend is Research Director at the Institute for the Future, an independent research organization based in California's Silicon Valley. His writing, public speaking and consulting focus on urbanization, ubiquitous computing and technology-led innovation and economic development. He lives and works in the New York City area. Anthony was named one of Planetizen's "Leading Thinkers in Urban Planning & Technology" and "Top 100 Thinkers" tracking the Internet of things by Postscapes.


My h-index - a measure of scholarly impact that measures citations of my research by others - as of November 2011 is 15. You can see the data behind this calculation here, or find more information about the h-index here.





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Talks

Disaster Forensics: Leveraging Crisis Information Systems for Social Science

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

This is  a paper I’ll be giving at the annual Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management conference on May 16 at NJIT. It’s about how the proliferation of sensor networks will dramatically change the way we investigate social behavior and and reconstruct timelines of disasters. We liken this shift to the development of forensic [...]

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Media Center at the American Press Institute

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

This will be on February 9 in Palo Alto – will post the text when it’s finished. Download (8.8 mb)

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Live on Columbia University Radio

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Had fun Friday night atalking about mobile, digital art and media and the city with Trebor Scholz and Federico Mauralanda on “Live Constructions”. Listen to the stream here

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My Lecture at KISDI

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

I’m giving a lecture at the Korea Information Strategy Development Institute on Monday, a national think tank for IT and economic development. The title is “Challenges and Opportunities for the Ubiquitous City”. Here’s a PDF of my slides (2.4 mb) Download Townsend-KISDI-08-23-2004-screen.pdf

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STELLA Budapest Meeting Presentation

Thursday, June 10th, 2004

Mobile Communications and Sustainable Transportation: An Agenda for Research and Action Anthony Townsend, New York University Email: anthony.townsend@nyu.edu April 23, 2004 Budapest, Hungary Download PDF of Presentation Slides Previous research has investigated the many linkages between telecommunications and demand for travel in urban and metropolitan areas. However, despite the rapid and widespread diffusion of mobile [...]

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University College London (April 20, 2004)

Thursday, April 8th, 2004

Presentation to be given at Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.   Digitally Mediated Urban Space: Lessons for Design Download file

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