Fabio Carrera @ WPI
My main research interest is emergent systems, especially as applied to urban information systems in support of
municipal maintenance, management and planning.
I have recently founded two
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Every year, I supervise several student research projects
connected to the two labs � from MS theses to undergraduate Major
Qualifying Projects to On-Campus
Interactive Qualifying Projects.
Full-time faculty member of the Interdisciplinary and
Global Studies Division
Recent courses:
�
Preparation courses (ID2050) for
WPI Students going to Bangkok,
Thailand, Boston,
Massachusetts, and Venice, Italy.
�
A Computer Science Course (CS3043
)entitled �Social
Implications of Information Processing�.
Director of the Venice Project
Center since 1988.� Produced over
100 studies for Venice on Preservation of Natural and
Cultural Heritage and on Urban Sustainability
(if you have a fast connection,
you can try to look at a very exhaustive yet very
large PowerPoint presentation about the VPC).
Director of the Boston Project Center�since 1997.� Produced over 25 studies
for Boston on a variety of municipal topics.
MIT Doctoral Dissertation, September 2004.
City
Knowledge as key to understanding the relation between waters and stones in
Venice.
In a
Community
Participation in Planning: Using GIS and Public Input to Envision Urban Change
in �Real Time�, with R. Krueger, J.Farmer and D.
Benoit.
NESTVAL Conference, Portland, Maine, 15-16 October,
2004.�������
Proceedings of the First
International Conference on the Management of Urban Maintenance,
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on
Document Analysis and Recognition.� Seoul, South Korea:� August 29-September 1, 2005.� Paper submitted for review.
A
sustainable information infrastructure for the maintenance of the inner canals
of Venice,
Proceedings of the 2005 URISA
Conference (Urban and Regional
Information Systems Association), Kansas City, October 9-12, 2005.� Abstract submitted for review.
Free
Traffic Knowledge: Semi-automatic Traffic Data Accumulation in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, with J. Schreiber.
Proceedings of the 2005 ACSP
Conference (Association of
Collegiate Schools of Planning), Charleston, SC, October 27-30,
2005.� Abstract submitted for review.
From plan-demanded Data to plan-ready
Information to plan-demanding Knowledge, with Lorlene Hoyt.
Journal of Urban
Technology,
April, 2005.� In preparation.
Homo Eruditus:� the next step in our evolution.� From hunter gatherers of urban data to
farmers of city knowledge.
Environment
and Planning B,
April, 2005.� In preparation.
ACSP-AESOP
Conference,
The
Impact of Tourism on the Quality of Life of the Citizens of the Historic Center
of Venice, Italy.
Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, December 2004.