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SCD Research
Research, publications, and practical methods for understanding how cities evolve—and how technology, data, and artificial intelligence affect urban life.
Current research
City Attractiveness Index
Compares population change across 4,975 urban centers, adjusting for estimated demographic influences to examine how cities attract and retain people.
Smart City Classification
SCD’s original quantitative methodology evaluates technological maturity and operational autonomy separately, using documented deployments in eight urban service domains. The Smart City Atlas currently contains 39 city and project records, including provisional assessments and entries under review.
Publications
Journal articles
Using transformer-based language models to examine how smart cities are defined and compared.
How connected city services create difficult trade-offs between convenience and personal privacy.
Book
The Essential Guide to Computer Data Storage: From Floppy to DVD
Andrei Khurshudov · Prentice Hall · 2001
A practical guide to storage technologies, backup, reliability, and recovery.
View book on Google Books ↗Selected articles and perspectives
Earlier technical writing and conference presentations
Patents & inventions
Alongside his published work, SCD founder Andrei Khurshudov has contributed to patented inventions in computer and data technologies. Browse patent records ↗