Deb Roy

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Deb Roy

Chief Media Scientist, Twitter

Deb Roy founded Blue Fin Labs, a social TV analytics company, which Twitter acquired in 2013. Roy now works as Twitter's chief media scientist. He is also a tenured professor at MIT.

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With A $12M Cash Infusion, Bluefin Labs Heads Into The Eye Of Social Media Storms

The social media analytics company Bluefin Labs figures out what people are saying about TV on social media–now they’ll try to figure out why they’re saying it.

With A $12M Cash Infusion, Bluefin Labs Heads Into The Eye Of Social Media Storms

MIT Scientist Captures 90,000 Hours of Video of His Son’s First Words, Graphs It

Cognitive scientist Deb Roy blew the curve for Flip cam-packing proud pops. Since he and his wife brought their son home from the hospital, Roy has captured his every movement and word with a series of fisheye-lens cameras installed in every room. The purpose was to understand how we learn language.

MIT Scientist Captures 90,000 Hours of Video of His Son’s First Words, Graphs It

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