Blue CoLab Blog

Blue CoLab Blog

Click here to read posts, articles and projects by Blue CoLab students, faculty and staff. Updated weekly. If you are interested in contributing a post, contact Professor John Cronin: jcronin@pace.edu

Let Tech Spring in the Environment!

Let Tech Spring in the Environment!

Advance technology to benefit human and environmental health.The Blue Xylem team is a group of Blue CoLab students and faculty, working with Xylem Inc., using technology to create an effective and efficient UX-based product for water users. In one of our earlier...

Cybersecurity Done Right

Cybersecurity Done Right

We must assure Blue CoLab's data and infrastructure cannot be compromised.When I first started at Blue CoLab, I was not sure what to expect. I knew I would have a unique experience. I knew the Blue CoLab trains students in the tech and data of real-time water...

What Ada’s Data Mean

What Ada’s Data Mean

Did you land here because our “Ada Data” text-bot sent you? Or because you are puzzling over that orange, solar powered, floating raft in Choate Pond on the Pace University Pleasantville campus? No worries. We are here to help!

Teaching Ada’s Data to Sing!

Teaching Ada’s Data to Sing!

Sonified data can enable those with challenged vision a new way to understand data.When I stepped into Blue CoLab, I embraced its vision to take the next steps toward data innovation. Professor John Cronin, the pioneer of our team, stated in one of the Friday scrum...

Creating a Water Quality Index

Creating a Water Quality Index

A WQI is a universal language for understanding the quality of a water body.Water quality is a global concern -- not only for tap water, but oceans, rivers, streams, lakes and ponds. What about our own Choate Pond on the Pace Pleasantville campus? We look at it, walk...

Choate Pond  is Like Narragansett Bay?

Choate Pond is Like Narragansett Bay?

With full pond instrumentation students will use IoT and AI for learning and research.Comparing the 93,888-acre Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island’s largest estuary, to the one-acre Choate Pond on the Pace Pleasantville campus might seem a stretch. But whether an...

Taming iOS and Android

Taming iOS and Android

Though remote is the new norm,  we converted our spoken ideas into prototype apps over ZoomIn case you missed it, the App Development Team held its first Code-a-Thon on Friday, October 16 at 8AM. The team includes Zach DeMeglio, Meher Upadhyay and myself. Our job is...

The Power of Invisible Design

The Power of Invisible Design

Every design choice influences a user in subtle, often unnoticeable ways.Things that are well designed tend to be invisible. Things that are poorly designed are glaring and obtrusive. Think about doors. Try to remember the last time you used a well-designed door, one...

Dr. Frank Parisi & the Data Analytics Team

Dr. Frank Parisi & the Data Analytics Team

Data mangling is the extraction, manipulation and cleaning of data for public useThe Blue Colab Data Analytics team was honored to welcome Seidenberg's Dr. Francis Parisi to its regular meeting last week. He is a renowned data science professor on the New York City...