Smart Cities

The label “Smart City” remains a blurry concept, whose meaning and particularities shift based on the involved stakeholders’ motivations.

The lecture will outline overarching concepts, how Smart City technologies approach urban problems, and where they fall short of their promise. Specific attention is given to issues around the data collection, bias and discrimination, and conflicting interests between parties.

We will look at good practices vendors can engage in, community engagement, as well as legislative proposals that address some of the surveillance concerns.

Speaker Bio:
Daniel Schwarz is a Technology Fellow in the Legislative Department of the New York Civil Liberties Union, where he focuses on Algorithmic Accountability, Smart City, and Net Neutrality projects. He is an artist and technologist working on issues of privacy and surveillance. His artistic practice examines control and power structures, state authority, border politics and cartography in connection with the larger surveillance complex.

He exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada; the Nevada Museum of Art; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA); the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York; the Goethe Institute, Washington DC; and the Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, among many others.

Daniel graduated with a M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2015. From 2011 to 2012, he held an artist residency at Fabrica in Italy. Prior he studied computer science and media (BSc) at the HdM Stuttgart, Germany, and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Attention Professional Engineers: An application for .2 CEU credits (equivalent to 2 PDHs) has been applied for and is approved. There will be a $10 charge for these credits payable by check made out to "IEEE Consultants' Network of Long Island".

6:30 PM: Network with others over delicious food and soft drinks. We will be having deli heroes: American, Italian and Grilled Vegetable plus coleslaw, macaroni and potato salads. So, bring your appetite.

7:00 PM: Introductions, LICN announcements and presentation

Between our normal non-Meetup crowd and those on this Meetup list, we expect to have a good 40 or so people attending, so bring your business cards to share when networking.

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