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Gregory Roman Skibiski (born 1973) is an American entrepreneur. Skibiski is the founder[1][2] and former Chairman & CEO of Sense Networks, a New York City based company focused on analyzing big data from mobile phones and carrier networks.[3][4][5][6][7] Skibiski is named lead[8] inventor on three patent applications for analyzing emerging sensor data streams from mobile phones, culminating in the Macrosense and Citysense products.[9]

Citysense was named by ReadWriteWeb (in The New York Times) as "Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009". [10]

Life and Career

The idea for Citysense started back in 2002, when Skibiski, a software developer who has run a global hedge fund conference for several years, approached Alex "Sandy" Pentland (Head of Human Dynamics Research at the MIT Media Lab) with the idea that data being collected by mobile phones and GPS devices could be useful to economists.[11][12][13][14] Skibiski proposed that "location data is the best descriptor of who is a human being".[15]

Skibiski was pushed out by lead investor Intel Capital[16] in November 2009 following the company's B round of financing, at the same time Sense Networks was named one of "The 25 Most Intriguing Startups in the World" by Bloomberg Businessweek. [17]

Originally from Northampton, Massachusetts, he received his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University in 1996 and his MBA from HEC Paris in 2006.[18] Skibiski was also one of the first employees at BackWeb Technologies, a Tel Aviv based internet infrastructure software company.[19]

Privacy & Data Ownership

Although there have been doubts as to its practicality, Skibiski has been a proponent of and contributor to the New Deal on Data.[20][21][22][23] “The idea behind the New Deal on Data is based on Old English Common Law saying you have the right to possess something, use it and dispose of it. So if you’re a company and you keeping their location data, the end user should own it and have a say over whether it should be destroyed.”[24]

The New Deal on Data also provides for the aggregate, anonymous use of location data for the public good, such as predicting Tuberculosis outbreaks in Africa. “If you can find and identify an outbreak just one week earlier, you’re saving thousands of lives.”[25]

References

  1. ^ "Sense Networks Secures Series B Funding for Location Analytics, Led by Intel Capital", Sense Networks corporate website, Media Center, New York, 30 June 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-14.
  2. ^ "Press Release: Sense Networks Secures Series B Funding for Location Analytics, Led by Intel Capital", Intel Capital, New York, 30 June 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-13.
  3. ^ Fitzgerald, Michael. "Predicting Where You’ll Go and What You’ll Like", The New York Times, New York, 22 June 2008. Retrieved on 2010-05-12.
  4. ^ Sheridan, Barrett. "A Trillion Points of Data", Newsweek, New York, 28 Feb 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-12.
  5. ^ Baker, Stephen. "Mapping a New, Mobile Internet", Bloomberg Businessweek, New York, 26 February 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-12.
  6. ^ Markoff, John. "You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?", The New York Times, New York, 29 November 2008. Retrieved on 2010-05-12.
  7. ^ Sense Networks, Inc. corporate website. Retrieved on 2010-05-12.
  8. ^ US Patent & Trademark Office. Retrieved on 2010-05-12.
  9. ^ Silver, James. "The Hidden Persuaders", Wired Magazine, London, 22 June 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-12.
  10. ^ Macmanus, Richard. "Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009", The New York Times, New York, 8 December 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-13.
  11. ^ Junietz, Erika. "A Sense of Place", MIT Technology Insider, Boston, August 2008. Retrieved on 2010-05-14.
  12. ^ Davey, Justin. "Five Location-Based Services to Watch in 2009", VentureBeat, San Francisco, 28 November 2008. Retrieved on 2010-05-14.
  13. ^ Stern, Allen. "Sense Networks Answers the Question, 'Where's the Party At?'", CenterNetworks, San Francisco, 9 June 2008. Retrieved on 2010-05-14.
  14. ^ Forrest, Brady. "Citysense: Lets You Know What Everyone's Doing", O'Reilly, San Francisco, 9 June 2008. Retrieved on 2010-05-14.
  15. ^ Stepanek, Marcia. "New Deal on Data", Pop!Tech, San Francisco, 29 May 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-14.
  16. ^ Baker, Stephen. "Data correlation: Used-car customers drop cell-phone service?", The Numerati, New York, 8 January 2010. Retrieved on 2010-05-14.
  17. ^ Ante, Spencer. "The World's Most Intriguing Startups", Bloomberg BusinessWeek, New York, 12 November 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-12.
  18. ^ "HEC Graduate, Greg Skibiski, Indexes the Real World", HEC Paris, Paris, 25 June 2008. Retrieved on 2010-05-13.
  19. ^ "The Mobile Web", Milken Institute, Los Angeles, 27 April 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-13.
  20. ^ Diaz, Carly. "Interview with Greg Skibiski". Amsterdam, NL. 29 September 2009. Video.
  21. ^ Bollier, David. The Promise and Peril of Big Data (book) Eighteenth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology, Aspen, Colorado, 2010. ISBN: 0-89843-516-1
  22. ^ Sheridan, Barrett. "A Trillion Points of Data", Newsweek, New York, 28 Feb 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-12.
  23. ^ Forrest, Brady. "Citysense: Lets You Know What Everyone's Doing", O'Reilly, San Francisco, 9 June 2008. Retrieved on 2010-05-14.
  24. ^ Stepanek, Marcia. "New Deal on Data", Pop!Tech, San Francisco, 29 May 2009. Retrieved on 2010-05-14.
  25. ^ Tsai, Jessica. "Here, There and Everywhere", DestinationCRM, San Francisco, January 2010. Retrieved on 2010-05-15.

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