CITYSENSE: LIVE NIGHTLIFE ACTIVITY

Today, several companies have systems that predict the best route you should follow from A to B to avoid traffic and minimize travel time. But these systems don't tell you which places are cool and which ones are not. CitySense does! On your cellphone :)

Sense Networks use the GPS data that people create from their cell phones to build systems that learn from group behavior to predict the best route you should follow for the evening to maximize your fun time. Sense Networks are now building systems that measure where people are and cluster (or group) them by their movement history into different tribes or personalities. That way, you can find a restaurant, bar or even an art gallery where people are present (or absent if you like the quiet) and get a general idea of what kind of crowd is there. Maybe you enjoy going to a cafe with a lot of artistic people are and listen to more alternative music? With CitySense (and the next release in particular), you can find a cafe that might have the right crowd in real-time instead of just looking up a static phone book listing of coffee shops.

Intrigued? Tony Jebara, Chief Scientist & Co-Founder of Sense Networks told us interesting details.

What has a professor of computer science with (San Francisco) nightlife?

"While I don't know much about San Francisco night life, I am looking forward to launching our system in New York City where I do live. New York, as with other large cities, offers a wide range of entertainment and cultural events. So many that it is difficult to know where to go and what to choose. However, as a computer science professor with very limited free time, I would like to have a computational tool to help me optimize my leisure time, a predictive social navigator system if you will."

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