Cities are increasingly gathering data from a range of unusual sources as the cost of chip technology falls and data-gathering sensors can be fitted on pretty much anything, from bridges to sewers, streetlights to bins.
The project has brought together an unusual gathering of far-flung talent.
In Brussels, meanwhile, an unusual gathering of former European leaders, academics and industrialists urged politicians to recognize that part of the answer to Europe's ills was to give up some sovereignty to keep the euro alive.
"You are such a leader in advancing economic and social but also political reforms," Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, said at the opening yesterday of an unusual gathering of the organization in a so-called Royal Tent in the grounds of a luxury resort here.
Those who greeted the marchers were an unusual gathering of union members, all identified by colorful t-shirts, who came to support these low-wage workers who live and work in the shadows of our society.
Sequence analysis of the genes that code for the 2 outer capsid proteins VP7 and VP4, for the inner capsid protein VP6, and for the nonstructural protein NSP4 is useful for gathering epidemiologic information and tracing the origin of unusual rotavirus strains.
Under the influence of a mysterious (though seemingly benign) power, this week The New Yorker brings you something unusual: a gathering of the living and the dead for a special Science Fiction issue.
Pope John Paul II today convened an unusual one-day gathering of leaders of a dozen religions, including Muslims, Jews and Christians, to affirm his belief that "whoever uses religion to foment violence contradicts religion's deepest and truest inspiration".
The gathering of so many Arab parties here was unusual for two reasons.
The gathering of images is the culmination of an unusual partnership between Ms. Goldin, who has been living in Paris, and an art institution there that normally does business only with dead artists.
