User:Tpryor

Hello!

I'm Tony Pryor, and I'm working on a few projects here in the lab. I originally became involved with the MIT community through an expermental school called arsDigita University, where 35 lucky students completed the MIT EECS curriculum in one year, working 12+ hours a day, 6+ days a week.

Recently I've been working with Nathan Eagle on his proximity computing project Serendipity, which is part of his PhD research topic, Reality Mining, which offers to introduce large scale empirical stochastic models of human behavior patterns such as location changes and casual social contact to social network analysis.

My urban navigation project is called Ariadne.

On a location based projects related note, my friend Adam Holt and I have been principly involved in starting something called the MIT Collaborative Mapping Initiative. Right now there are about 120 people from the MIT community involved in it in some way, and about 25 who are committal. If you are doing any sort of location based work I recommend coming to a meeting.

I'm also developing a tool called Hallways, a deep link menuing system to enable enfiladic hypertext within wikipedia.

Here are some less recent software related things I've done. I used to have the patience of a schoolteacher. Prior that I was an antique dealer, specializing in the unique remnants of old Hollywood and that peculiar, interesting, engaging, and aging crowd whose memory it is.

If I should happen to ask any odd sounding questions about your projects, fear not.

I'm probably under the influence of an infinite monkey. Kachzzinng. Tap tap, tap.