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João Barros Universidade do Porto Future Cities @ U.Porto

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João Barros

Universidade do Porto

Future Cities @ U.Porto

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Why do we care about cities?

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Porto

Midsized European city

Multi-modal transportation system

Fiber-optical Internet backbone

Entrepreneurial tradition

41km2 of Real Life

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Universidade do Porto

• Founded in 1911 (roots in the18th century)

• 14 different schools• ~31000 students• ~6000 graduate students• ~2300 professors• 70 research institutes

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Computation

Communication

Social SciencesArt & Design

Control

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1. Form inter-disciplinary teams

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2. Build world-class testbeds for urban-scale experiments

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3. Work closely with end users from day one

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4. Share data sets

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5. Solve real-world problems with industry partners

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6. Bring the results out to the world.

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Test beds & Living labs in Porto

Collaborators

MIT

UCL

Scientific Advisory Board

University of Porto

School of Engineering

School of Sciences

School of Psychology and Education Sciences

Partners

Industrial Affiliates

Government Agencies

Municipalities

Future Cities

KTH

Supelec

Carnegie Mellon

Future Cities @ U.Porto

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Cloud

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Porto – Our Living Lab for Future Cities