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FORBES: Names You Need to Know in 2011: Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti is the director of the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

FORBES: Names You Need to Know in 2011: Carlo Ratti

Historian David Kertzer notes that Cardinal Angelo Ratti became pope just a few months before Mussolini took power in Italy.

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Ratti is an Italian civil engineer and architect with a MPhil and PhD degree in architecture from the University of Cambridge.

FORBES: Names You Need to Know in 2011: Carlo Ratti

The power of the crowd will be crucial to the cities of the future, thinks Carlo Ratti, MIT's head of Sense-able Cities.

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Ratti and company are on a mission to make smarter cities by utilizing technology to tap into the ever-increasing amount of data that flow through city networks.

FORBES: Names You Need to Know in 2011: Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti, who heads the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the first to sift through the data produced by telecoms networks.

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In addition, supervising the museum's Antonio Ratti Textile Centre introduced him to curators from almost every department and increased his knowledge of the museum's immense holdings, which number more than 2m objects.

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