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SUMMARY:Community Partners in Residence (CPR) Program - Meeting 9
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, April 2\, 2024\, the NSF Center for Smart StreetScapes (CS3) held its ninth Community Partners in Residence (CPR) Program workshop. The session was moderated by Barbara Askins. The focus of this week’s workshop continued to include input from the CPRs to highlight their work in the Harlem community. Presentations given by Jessica Elliott\, the Vice Chair of Manhattan Community Board 11\, Walter Alexander\, member of Manhattan Community Board 9\, and Dr. Lena Green\, Executive Director of HOPE Center in First Corinthian Baptist Church. \nAfter opening remarks by Barbara Askins\, Jessica Elliott introduced the region serviced by Manhattan Community Board 11. CB11M encompasses East Harlem\, including areas north of 96th Street and east of 5th Avenue\, broken up into eleven sections/committees. Section meetings are held monthly\, and the Board also convenes Board-wide meetings. Buildings in the area generally consist of residential units stacked upon retail storefronts\, and despite ongoing projects\, such as the development of a “green street” for water retention and shoring up the riverside area for protection against rising sea levels\, the community is generally dissatisfied. Because of this\, the entirely volunteer-run Community Board would like to see greater collaboration between the various districts\, stakeholders\, and the broader community to better address issues faced by the East Harlem area. One step the Board has taken is to field a community feedback survey\, which revealed that the majority of complaints involved public safety\, land use\, and human services. Using these results\, the Board has already taken steps to create programs to address major community concerns\, such as producing the East Harlem Earth Day Conference with hopes to raise awareness for environmental justice causes and create a “cascade effect” to more broadly improve the quality of life in the region. The 2nd Annual Earth Day event would take place in a few weeks at the Museum of the City of NY and everyone in the room was invited. \nThe second presentation of the evening was delivered by Walter Alexander\, a member of Manhattan Community Board 9. MCB9 encompasses the area north of 110th Street and west of Morningside Park. Of note regarding the population are the facts that 43.9% are educated\, 11.5% are over 65 years of age\, 3.8% are unemployed\, and 20.2% are impoverished. Similarly to CB11M\, MCB9 consists of committee sections\, which also include three task forces\, and monthly meetings held by all the sections. The three neighborhood districts are Hamilton Heights\, Manhattanville\, and Morningside Heights\, and each district hosts a variety of community events. Currently\, one project the Community Board is attempting to address is the renovation of the RKO Hamilton Heights Theater\, which has fallen into disrepair and remained derelict for some time. Walter discussed his personal connection to the theater\, in addition to stating that consultation with engineering students from the City College and Columbia University has begun. Walter also made a point to discuss the issues senior citizens face concerning technology accessibility\, both in terms of lacking availability of free wi-fi and tech products\, along with gaining an ease of use. In addition\, the health center at 125th Street and Amsterdam has been slated for demolition without the expressed consent of the people living in the area. The relocation of services to a nearby area would be very unfortunate\, but a reasonable consolation. \nFor the final CPR presentation of the evening\, Dr. Lena Green\, Executive Director of The HOPE Center Harlem\, introduced her organization and its goals. The HOPE Center is a first-of-its-kind mental health center operating within a church – First Corinthian Baptist Church. It offers a breadth of programs that assist the local community\, including church-based counseling\, an in-house clinician\, and initiatives to address stigma surrounding mental health and personal betterment. The Center operates on a cyclical model of engagement\, involving surveys\, assessments\, and community feedback. To-date the Center’s impact includes a successful suicide prevention program for Latino students sponsored by NIKE and “Snapshot\,” a photography program for storytelling in partnership with JHP. Their current challenges include further addressing stigma\, housing insecurity\, undocumented population members\, business impact\, substance abuse\, and access to funding. Ideally\, The HOPE Center would like to see more tech integration in the form of 24 hour availability for things like suicide prevention chat services\, safety devices\, and translation services. Additionally\, Dr. Green expressed concerns regarding the regulation and ownership of data and privacy. \nFollowing the series of CPR presentations\, Prof. Brian Smith\, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and CS3 Researcher (and frequent attendee at these CPR Workshops)\, provided a brief update on the state of his research. Incorporating direct feedback received during CPR Workshop sessions\, Brian put forth the contents of a paper draft which would use AR technology to enhance the history of Harlem with a variety of education opportunities. Namely\, he and his students have been working on ideas to use QR codes on landmarked buildings\, providing people with snapshots of that building throughout time and annotating them on a map. As well as the option to indicate buildings that once stood in spots on a map/grid that were historically important but may no longer be standing in modern times. They have also been exploring the possibility of taking photos of buildings in order to animate them or show which shops they contain\, inspired by examples of “talking” paintings. He concluded his presentation by reminding the audience of the importance of their contributions to CS3’s mission and asked for ideas regarding how CS3 could help better shape the conversation surrounding emerging AI technologies and their applications. \nIn the ensuing discussion\, the CPRs warmly encouraged Brian and other CS3 researchers to openly acknowledge their conversations with Harlem community members\, especially given their previous hesitation to be engaged in such interactive dialog. They also suggested that actual imagery of Harlem be included in the research paper\, which would better attach it to each location. The CPRs also agreed that they would be willing to branch out into the community and get more feedback; their unique position allows them to serve as credible messengers between the researchers and the broader Harlem community. Researchers were encouraged to come to CPRs’ organizations and talk to staff and constituents directly\, as well. CPRs were likewise suggested to visit certain labs\, with Brian offering the opportunity to tour his lab. The final concern of the evening before adjournment was that it would be generally valuable if more CS3 researchers would accept the invitations to attend these CPR workshop sessions to engage with the community as Brian has demonstrated his commitment to do. \nCPR workshops are invite-only. If you are interested in attending a workshop or learning more about CS3’s community engagement process\, please contact our team at streetscapes@columbia.edu.
URL:https://cs3-erc.org/event/community-partners-in-residence-cpr-program-meeting-9/
LOCATION:Harlem\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community
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SUMMARY:CS3 Innovation Summit 2024
DESCRIPTION:Agenda \n\nKeynote Address and “Fireside Chat” (9:15 AM – 10:00 AM) watch recording\nPanel: Privacy & Security in Smart Streetscape Technology (10:00 AM – 10:45 AM) watch recording: Rachel Cummings\, Data Privacy Researcher at Columbia University and Sal Stolfo\, Machine Learning & Security Researcher at Columbia University\, will discuss translating data privacy and security research into accepted standards and policy with Kenji Yoshihira\, Director of US Ecosystem Innovation at NEC Laboratories America\, Inc and Ruben Beltran\, Chief of Information Technology\, NYPD.\nStudent Pitch Session 1 (11:05 AM – 11:25 AM)\nState-of-the-Art Lightning Talks: Applications\, Computer Vision\, Digital Twins\, & Testbed Infrastructure (11:25 AM – 12:25 PM) watch recording: Smart streetscape applications with Brian Smith\, Director of the Computer-Enabled Abilities Laboratory (CEAL) at Columbia University; Computer vision with Carl Vondrick\, Computer Vision and Machine Learning Researcher at Columbia University; Digital twins with Sharon Di\, Travel Behavior & Transportation Systems Researcher at Columbia University; and testbed infrastructure from Jason Hallstrom\, CS3 Deputy Director and Chief Research Officer at Florida Atlantic University.\nAccelerator Demo Day (1:25 PM – 2:55 PM)\nStudent Pitch Session 2 (3:15 PM – 3:35 PM)\nPanel: How Urban Testbeds Drive Innovation (3:35 PM – 4:20 PM) watch recording: CS3 Director & Principal Investigator\, Andrew Smyth\, will discuss urban testbeds as drivers for community engagement and co-design with Barbara Askins\, President & CEO of 125th Street Business Improvement District in Upper Manhattan (Harlem)\, New York City\, Christopher Roog\, Executive Director of the Community Redevelopment Agency for the City of West Palm Beach\, Florida\, Paul Rothman Director\, Smart Cities + IoT @ NYC Office of Technology and Innovation and William Kenworthey\, Principal & Regional Leader of Planning & Urban Design\, HOK.\nIndustry Advisory Board Reception & Meeting
URL:https://cs3-erc.org/event/cs3-innovation-summit-2024/
LOCATION:Center for Smart Streetscapes\, 2276 12th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Public Sector
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SUMMARY:CS3 Monthly Research Exchange
DESCRIPTION:At each CS3 Monthly Research Exchange\, faculty and student researchers in the field of smart urban planning will take the stage to share their latest findings\, breakthroughs\, and urban projects. \nJoseph Fioresi\, Ph.D. Student at the University of Central Florida \n\nJoe is a 2nd year Ph.D. student at the University of Central Florida (UCF) studying Computer Vision under Dr. Mubarak Shah. His main focus is on video understanding tasks\, with an emphasis on learning useful representations under privacy and fairness constraints. He currently serves as the UCF representative on the CS3 Student Leadership Council.\nPresentation Abstract: Exploring various forms of bias and privacy concerns in video-level computer vision tasks\, proposing methods to reduce the problematic biases and private information usage.\n\nCaspar Lant\, Ph.D. Student at Columbia University \n\nCaspar is a second-year PhD student at CS3 under PI Henning Schulzrinne. Before coming to Columbia\, Caspar was a Fulbright fellow in Taiwan working on distributed environmental sensor systems. Caspar’s research interests include urban data\, machine learning\, and networking.\nPresentation Abstract: As the roadway becomes increasingly networked with the emergence of autonomous and electric vehicles\, intersection scheduling will move from study-based estimates of traffic conditions to real-time queuing problems with complete information. So far\, pedestrians (lacking built-in network hardware of their own) are excluded from this development. Caspar will present a transformer-based approach to predicting pedestrian behavior at intersections using GPS data.\n\nThe CS3 Monthly Research Exchanges are internal and open only to CS3 affiliated students\, faculty\, and staff. If you are interested in learning more about the research happening at CS3\, please contact our team at streetscapes@columbia.edu.
URL:https://cs3-erc.org/event/cs3-monthly-research-exchange-7/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:SLC
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