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Phone App Passively Tracks Your Health

At Cornell University in Ithaca, there’s a group of researchers who are working to teach electronic devices what makes people tick. The group, called People-Aware Computer, is headed by Tanzeem Choudhury, a professor of information science at Cornell. Lately, Choudhury’s … Continue reading

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Our Data, Ourselves

My first feature for Discover magazine is now online! In “Our Data, Ourselves,” I write about a Google engineer’s project to turn mobile phones phones into the ultimate data-collection devices. The idea is that when a person tracks her behaviors … Continue reading

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