Professor & Department Chair - Industrial Engineering - The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Defense Spending on Cyber, Special Operations Stays Steady as .S. Seeks Savings in Tough Year
Spending on two of the Pentagon’s top priorities, cybersecurity and special operations forces, would largely remain flat or dip slightly in 2013 under the Defense...
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Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion
For most of the U.S. military's far-flung community of scientists and engineers, Monday was a day to pop a Xanax.
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The Future of Hiring: Human Resources, Without the Humans
Imagine a scenario where your next job interview isn't face-to-face, but face-to-screen. There are no questions about your former work experience and office habits...
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Api: Three Letters That Change Life, the niverse, and Even Detroit
Sam Ramji met AT&T chief technology officer John Donovan on a speed date—or at least the tech world equivalent of a speed date.
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Designing Windows 8, or How to Redesign a Religion
There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest of all. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years, he's taken...
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Letting Hackers Compete, Facebook Eyes New Talent
Late this January, some 75,000 people around the planet sat in front of their computers and pondered how to make anagrams from a bowl of alphabet soup.
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New Execs Pledge to Rev p Amd
Hoping to revive their struggling company, Advanced Micro Devices executives vowed Thursday to more quickly make microchips that are power-efficient, low-cost,...
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Computer Scientist Taps Piloting Know-How To Create Safer Flight Systems
Carlos Varela, an associate professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and also a licensed pilot, has received seed funding from the U.S....
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Ncsa Blue Waters Project Selects Globus Online For Data Movement
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has chosen Globus Online as the data movement solution for the Blue Waters supercomputer, set for deployment...
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Making It in America
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction.
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Wanted: Supercomputer Programmers
The U.S.'s supercomputing labs are having difficulty finding software developers who can program state-of-the-art machines, according to a recent Daily Beast article...
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You Need To Learn How To Program
If you're looking for a New Year's resolution, let me suggest an idea that you might not have considered: You should learn computer programming. Specifically,...
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Five Questions with Astronaut Rex Walheim
Rex Walheim is an astronaut. He's gone to space three times, including on the last flight of the space shuttle. He has spent an accumulated 36 hours outside the...
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Dna: The Next Big Hacking Frontier
Imagine computer-designed viruses that cure disease, new bacteria capable of synthesizing an unlimited fuel supply, new organisms that wipe out entire populations...
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With a Leaner Model, Start-ps Reach Further Afield
Lee Redden, 26, a Ph.D. student in engineering at Stanford, recently decided to shelve his education and help found a start-up company.
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Retailers Are Losing the Software Talent Wars
For a decade, Target outsourced its website operations to Amazon.com. The Minneapolis retail giant began preparing two years ago to take control of the site when...
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The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'
Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping behavior, or millions of changes in weather patterns, or trillions of financial transactions—information...
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Cloud Centers Bring High-Tech Flash but Not Many Jobs to Beaten-Down Towns
Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment...
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'thinking Machines' Will Guide Future Power Grids
Plans to develop the "smart" grid cannot succeed without the creation of new "thinking machines" that can learn and adapt to new situations, says Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy...
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The Next Generation of Technology
Selecting Technology Review's yearly list of 35 innovators under the age of 35 is a difficult but rewarding process. We search for candidates around the world...
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