Fabio Carrera
biographical information
Born in
Returned to
and the rest in Venice, Italy. Married with
Jacqueline Marie Beaurivage Loughran.
Father of Nicolò Zuane, born January 31, 1991.
Recent News and Events
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I
was quoted a few times in the February
2007 issue of the Italian language version of National Geographic
Magazine (Vol. 29, Issue 2) in an article entitled "Mysterious
Venice".
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Around Christmas time (2006), I was
featured in Episode 5
( “High Tide”) of a Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation radio program entitled “Gilbert Reid’s
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In the Spring of 2006, I was
short-listed for a tenure-track faculty position in Urban Technology and
Information Systems at MIT (DUSP), but didn’t make it.
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The
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WPI and I were repeatedly mentioned in the September 23,
2005 issue of the magazine Science, in an article
entitled “A
sinking city yields some secrets”.
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On June 3, 2005, I walked in the
official commencement ceremony at MIT
(even though I completed my Ph.D. in September).
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On June 2, 2005, my PhD
Dissertation was recognized with an honorable
mention for the best dissertation of the year award in the
Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.
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On January 27,
2005, I received the University
Ambassador Award which recognizes excellence in representing WPI
to the outside world.
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Previously, I
had also received several President’s IQP Awards
and the WPI
John Boynton Young Alumni award for noteworthy service to WPI.
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In September 2004, I completed my PhD
Dissertation at MIT and I became officially a Doctor
of Philosophy in Urban Information Systems and Planning.
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The National Geographic Video
dedicated to my work in Venice still airs from time to
time around the world (click here
for a streaming sample).
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In the past few years, I have also been
interviewed by BBC radio
and featured in articles in Wired magazine,
Smithsonian
and New Scientist.
Teaching
I am a full-time faculty member of the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division
at WPI. My
primary teaching duties include project preparation courses and project advising, both on campus (through the e-campus and hometown
initiative) and off campus (most recently in London,
Venice,
Boston,
Bangkok
and Worcester). I periodically teach courses at MIT: Spatial
Database Management and Advanced Geographic Information Systems (spring
2007) and Research Seminar in
Urban Information Systems (fall 2005).
Research
Most of my
research interests are concentrated under City Lab, an
interdisciplinary research laboratory that I founded in 2003 (the website is
being moved – if you experience problems, try
the older site). The most active
research areas include the development of Urban Technologies
(such as our Pothole and Turbulence
Mappers), Urban
Information Systems, primarily dedicated to the development of Web 2.0 tools,
such as LOUIS
(Local On-line Urban Information System) and Urban Initiatives,
such as the E-Campus
and Hometown
Initiative. I also continue to work
on Emergent
Systems, primarily with our Emergent Transcriptions
Project.
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last updated: October 7, 2007