# Prof. Steven Koonin and the Center for Urban Science and Progress are highlighted

1 School News February 24, 2013 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/technology/nyu-center-develops-a-science-of-cities.html) -- "What is different today, says [Dr. Koonin](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/steven-koonin), is that digital technologies — sensors, wireless communication, storage and clever software algorithms — are advancing so rapidly that it is becoming possible to see and measure activities in an urbanenvironment as never before."

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