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Inferring Unusual Crowd Events From Mobile Phone Call Detail Records
Yuxiao Dong, Fabio Pinelli, Yiannis Gkoufas +3
The pervasiveness and availability of mobile phone data offer the opportunity of discovering usable knowledge about crowd behaviors in urban environments. Cities can leverage such…
A Story of Suo Motos, Judicial Activism, and Article 184 (3)
Zubair Nabi
The synergy between Big Data and Open Data has the potential to revolutionize information access in the developing world. Following this mantra, we present the analysis of more tha…
Censorship is Futile
Zubair Nabi
The Internet has become the new battle ground between authoritarian regimes and ordinary individuals who want unimpeded access to information. The immense popularity of online acti…
A $35 Firewall for the Developing World
Zubair Nabi
A number of recent efforts aim to bridge the global digital divide, particularly with respect to Internet access. We take this endeavor one step further and argue that Internet acc…
The Zen of Graduate-level Programming
Zubair Nabi
The ubiquity of technology in our daily lives and the economic stability of the technology sector in recent years, especially in areas with a computer science footing, has led to a…
Clome: The Practical Implications of a Cloud-based Smart Home
Zubair Nabi, Atif Alvi
A rich body of work in recent years has advocated the use of cloud technologies within a home environment, but nothing has materialized so far in terms of real-world implementation…
The Anatomy of Web Censorship in Pakistan
Zubair Nabi
Over the years, the Internet has democratized the flow of information. Unfortunately, in parallel, authoritarian regimes and other entities (such as ISPs) for their vested interest…