We can now measure local economic activity using DAYTIME satellite images. Even Bill Gates is excited about it. Here's everything you need to know (in simple terms):

Is Generative AI a Bubble? Let me make the contrarian case that we are living in the middle of a generative AI bubble. First, I want to clarify that I am not an AI skeptic or fatalist. I don’t believe AI will take over the world and must be stopped. On the contrary, I am a long

This year's Digital Methods Summer School (Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1-12 July) is dedicated to 'Visual Methods'. Call for participation out at digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerScho…. Digital Methods vera.ai We're celebrating the new book by Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo

I don’t usually get a publication date for my work but MIT Press released my new book The Computable Citytoday (26th March). Entirely composed of words! No equations in sight ! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547574/… and at Amazon amazon.co.uk/Computable-Cit…

More on #Gaza below!

Joint statement by the Barnard-Columbia chapters of the AAUP regarding the mass suspension of students. Currently at least 100 students have been suspended, with more apparently in process.

A statement by our faculty at Columbia and Barnard. More to come. I am behind every word.

“With the truth up for grabs, Columbia’s young journalists are getting the story.” That’s you, ⁦WKCR-FM NY⁩ ⁦Columbia Daily Spectator⁩ ⁦Bwog⁩ ⁦Columbia Journalism School⁩! inquirer.com/columnists/att…

In solidarity with my Columbia GSAPP friends and colleagues. Their multiple opinions, expertise and politics is what makes us a strong, committed faculty, as well as creates an environment which defends academic freedom and free speech. See: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

I do feel that the students are highly critical of Israeli politics,I don’t believe that is inherently antisemitic at all.I don’t feel threatened as a Jewish faculty member in any way. 🗣️ Professor Susan B from #ColumbiaUniversity

The tents are gone, but they left their mark.

NYT Graphics is looking for a cartographer to join us in a temporary position to cover the biggest stories in 2024. We’re searching for a versatile geospatial specialist who can build and design maps for breaking news coverage. Is this you? Apply here: bit.ly/4bjstJM

BRUCE ROBBINS JEWISH PROFESSOR AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TELLS YOU WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THE CAMPUS

The best way to accurately predict where deforestation will occur? By identifying 'Ghost Roads'. 200 people spent 7,000 hours identifying them. Here's what you need to know about it:

I'm at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, where police have entered the building after protestors took it over.

I can't wait to read this. Erin McElroy Ordering soon.

Spatial Computing is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the M.S. in Computational Design Practices Program (Columbia GSAPP CDP) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University (Columbia GSAPP). e-flux.com/architecture/s…

"Spatial Computing," e-flux, is a collab between e-flux Arch and MSCDP + edited by GSAPP’s Laura Kurgan and Adam Vosburgh. Through the end of June, six contributing writers share essays on the digital and physical boundaries of spatial computing. e-flux.com/architecture/s…

The White Helmets has deployed 5 specialized emergency teams to Sednaya Prison to investigate hidden underground cells, reportedly holding detainees according to survivors. The teams consist of search and rescue units, wall-breaching specialists, iron door-opening crews, trained

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