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Anas Alfaris has been a member of UNESCO’S scientific board of the International Basic Sciences Programme since October 2021. The scientific board is made up of global experts appointed for a three-year term. Alfaris is also the co-founder and CEO of Intelmatix, a deep-tech artificial intelligence company with operations in Riyadh, London and Boston. Between 2019 and 2021, he
A team of mathematicians and engineers from The University of Western Australia have used network science to provide an insight into where maintenance
What explains how often people travel to a particular place? Your intuition might suggest that distance is a key factor, but empirical evidence can help urban studies researchers answer the question more definitively. A new paper by an MIT team,
A new paper by an MIT team and colleagues in Singapore, China, Italy and Denmark, drawing on global data, finds that people visit places more frequently when they have to travel shorter distances to get there. By examining cellphone data on four continents, the researchers were able to arrive at...
New MIT research confirms people visit places more frequently when they have to travel shorter distances to get there. The study establishes a “visitation law” and could help in urban planning.