Apr 24, 2013

Coye Cheshire and the I School Drone Lab in the SF Weekly

From SF Weekly

Pie in the Sky: UC Berkeley Works on Drones That Won't Spy on and/or Kill You

By Rachel Swan

Coye Cheshire doesn't mean to be impolitic, but he can't help mentioning the FBI's fruitless search for a Boston Marathon bomber — and how it could be abetted by technology.

"The whole push is to find someone who had pictures, and who could provide high resolution information about public events," says Cheshire, an associate professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information....

At the UC Berkeley School of Information, a group of graduate students recently coalesced around the idea of building their own drones for a variety of reasons — all good....

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