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TEDxUHowest - Charles Petrie - The technology of emergent collectives for disaster relief.

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Charles Petrie is a retired researcher of Stanford University, specializing in semantic networks and logic. He is currently guest professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and at the Karlsruhe University. He is also former editor-in-chief, retired now and currently editor of the "Peering Column" of the IEEE Internet Computing journal. He has introduced the concept of emergent collectives in the context of Internet based collaboration. In this talk he looks at the applicability of these concepts in the realm of disaster relief organization.

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