One of the secrets to creativity and inventiveness is to connect disparate ideas. Cellular towers to predict floods? In Israel, a doctoral student named Noam David said, why not? Now, he's won a prestigious award, but more importantly, thanks to this invention, as reported in The Jerusalem Post, thousands of lives may be saved.
"A technique developed at Tel Aviv University using cellular phone towers to predict floods has been awarded a "2009 Best of What's New" award in the security category, along with 99 other top inventions in 11 categories, by Popular Science magazine.
Doctoral student Noam David of the geophysics and planetary sciences department, supervised by Prof. Pinhas Alpert and Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron, developed the technique, which uses reception data at base stations of cellular networks to predict flooding."
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