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Not me. Co-founder (3-person team) is @mediamum who is doing a PhD as a Research Assistant at the School of Computer Science at CU (alum include David Morin fro
by jedwhite 16y ago
Not me. Co-founder (3-person team) is @mediamum who is doing a PhD as a Research Assistant at the School of Computer Science at CU (alum include David Morin from Facebook and Woz). She's doing research into the use of social media for crisis communications (hurricanes, wildfires etc) in the Crisis Informatics Lab there. Doesn't hang out on HN so much (must be startup and PhD getting in the way).
Interestingly, Woz got kicked out of the CS school at CU for hacking side projects on the timeshare system as an undergrad - something other schools might have encouraged, and which CU today I am guessing would also not frown on the same way.
- blackguardx 16y agoTo which CU are you referring?
- philwelch 16y agoWoz (if we're talking about Steve Wozniak) was an alumnus of University of California, Berkeley. I don't know that he studied CS or got kicked out, though.
- seehafer 16y agoUniversity of Colorado at Boulder. Like the commenter above notes, Dave Morin and in earlier times the Woz are alumni. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak (search for Colorado)
- jedwhite 16y agoYep, as noted above it's University of Colorado. Woz's autobiography iWoz includes a few interesting stories about it too.
- follower 16y ago> She's doing research into the use of social media for crisis communications (hurricanes, wildfires etc) in the Crisis Informatics Lab there. Oh, interesting. Do you know if she did any research into the use of Twitter etc for communication after the recent earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand?
- jedwhite 16y agoThey're trying to capture data for as many as they can, and I'm pretty sure they tracked that. Recent events tracked also included the Boulder wildfires, Haiti earthquake (ie range is from local to international significance)