At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA's actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli's 1972 diagram.

I've been always curious to see a ranking of HCI conferences based on expected citations per paper. Is CHI the King as most believe? How do the thematic conferences like CSCW and MobileHCI do? And what about regional editions of CHI?