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Dr. Nathan Eagle
Ph.D., MS, MS, BS
United States

A Research Scientist at MIT's Media Lab, Dr. Eagle is the creator of the Reality Mining initiative, which applies artificial intelligence techniques on data collected from S60 handsets. He is active in S60-related research activities and knowledge sharing in international seminars, conferences, events, and trainings. His research has been spun out into MetroSpark, a mobile matchmaking startup.

Development Areas of Interest

Mobile platforms

MIDP 2.0/S60

Application categories

Mobile Social Software

Programming languages

Java™

Wireless device technologies

Bluetooth

Other areas of interest

Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Mobile Phones in the Developing World

Personal Competencies

Languages

Nepali
French
Swahili (beginner)

Mobile competencies

MIDP 2.0, Bluetooth Networking, Cell Tower Location Inference, Activity and Context Inference

Books and other publications

See reality.media.mit.edu/publications.php

Speaking engagements

"Modeling Complex Social Systems" O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, San Francisco, California. June 2005.
"Machine Perception and Learning of Complex Social Systems" nTag, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts. May 2005.
"Machine Perception and Learning of Complex Social Systems" Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England. May 2005.
"Mobile Phones As Wearable Sensors" MAS 967 -- Digital Innovations, Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 2005.
"My Phone Knows Where I'm Going after this Talk" France Telecom, Cambridge, Massachusetts. February 2005.
"Modeling Complex Social Systems" New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 2004.
"Life Queries with Mobile Phones" Google, Mountain View, California. October 2004.
"MIT and Mobile Social Software" Future Forward '04, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. August 2004.
"Organizational Life Logs" Provocative Publishing, Information Organized Consortium, Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 2003.
"Socially Curious Handhelds and Their Applications Within the Organization" Curious Machines, Digital Life Consortium, Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 2003.
"Sensors for Complex Human Networks" Sunbelt XXIII, International Social Network Conference, Cancun, Mexico. February 2002.
"Applications for Corporate Mobile Phones" Orange Imagineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts. December 2002.
"Reality Mining" Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington. December 2002.

Forum Nokia Community activity areas

Blog

Awards

Nokia University Relations

2005, Equipment and Service Gift

Nokia Research

2004, Reality Mining Research Project (60 Nokia 6600 phones)
2003-2004, Serendipity Mobile Matchmaking Project (40 Nokia 6600 phones)

Media Lab Europe Fellow

2003-2004

Media Lab Asia Fellow

2001-2003

Fulbright Scholar

1999-2000, Engineering in Nepal

Mayfield Fellow

1999, Stanford Technology Ventures Program

Main Achievements

Hosted Web pages

Homepage: web.media.mit.edu/~nathan
Research: reality.media.mit.edu

Other achievements

See my CV linked off of my homepage.

Contact Information

Contact Information

nathan@media.mit.edu

Personal Web pages

web.media.mit.edu/~nathan

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