MIT Creates Picture of NY Communications

By VERENA DOBNIK , Associated Press Writer, Technology / Telecom

An exhibition illustrating the results of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) project on global phone calls, hangs from the ceiling among works of art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Feb. 27, 2008. For the past two months, researchers from MIT have been collecting the electronic communications of New Yorkers in a project called New York Talk Exchange, hoping to build a census that reflects patterns of human migration. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

(AP) -- For the past two months, 24 hours a day, MIT researchers have been collecting the electronic communications of millions of New Yorkers - but not for salacious gossip or to protect national security.

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