{"375991":{"#nid":"375991","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Meet the Godfather of Wearable","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt all started with beavers. When Alex Pentland was three years into his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, in 1973, he worked part-time as a computer programmer for NASA\u2019s Environmental Research Institute. One of his first tasks \u2014 part of a larger environmental-monitoring project \u2014 was to develop a method for counting Canadian beavers from outer space. There was just one problem: existing satellites were crude, and beavers are small. \u201cWhat beavers do is they create ponds,\u201d he recalls of his eventual solution, \u201cand you can count the number of beavers by the number of ponds. You\u2019re watching the lifestyle, and you get an indirect measure.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-10 09:41:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:23:52","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"advice for students","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/5\/6\/5661318\/the-wizard-alex-pentland-father-of-the-wearable-computer","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}