February 27, 2009
Now You Can Track Colleagues and Students on Your Laptop
New location-tracking services may be a 'killer app' at academic conferences, if scholars don't mind some invasion of privacy
Norman M. Sadeh, a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, knows exactly where his research assistants are. He can just pop open his laptop and see their locations on a Google map, represented as push-pin-like icons scattered around the campus. And his colleagues can track him, too — well, at least during weekdays when he's in
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