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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3-D Printed High-Performance Polymer Could Be sed in Space
A team of Virginia Tech College of Engineering and College of Science researchers have 3-D printed a polymeric material that could find heavy use in space in any...
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The Myth of the Skills Gap
The contention that America's workers lack the skills employers demand is an article of faith among analysts, politicians, and pundits of every stripe, from conservative...
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How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made
We inhabit a small planet orbiting a medium-sized star about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the Milky Way galaxy—around where Track 2 on an LP record...
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With the Uss mccain Collision, Even Navy Tech Can't Overcome Human Shortcomings
In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.
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Wanted: Weaponized Exploits that Hack Phones. Will Pay Top Dollar
In a sign of the soaring demand for zeroday attacks that target software that's becoming increasingly secure, a market-leading broker is offering serious cash for...
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Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
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The Enduring Legacy of Zork
In 1977, four recent MIT graduates who'd met at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science used the lab's PDP-10 mainframe to develop a computer game that captivated...
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Silk Could Improve Sensitivity, Flexibility of Wearable Body Sensors
Scientists say they are on the cusp of using silk to develop a more sensitive and flexible generation of multi-purpose devices that monitor a slew of body functions...
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The Loyal Engineers Steering Nasa's Voyager Probes Across the Universe
In the early spring of 1977, Larry Zottarelli, a 40-year-old computer engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set out for Cape Canaveral, Fla....
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Engineer's Model Lays Groundwork For Machine-Learning Device
An engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has taken steps toward using nanocrystal networks for artificial intelligence applications.
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'it Knew What You Were Going to Do Next': AI Learns from Pro Gamers, Then Crushes Them
For decades, the world's smartest game-playing humans have been racking up losses to increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence.
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Scientists Debate How to Bring Red Planet Rocks to Earth
With NASA's sample-caching 2020 Mars rover mission just around the corner, the best strategy for hauling Red Planet rock and dirt to Earth is a now a topic of considerable...
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Everyone Thinks That Automation Will Take Our Jobs. The Evidence Disagrees
Last year, the Japanese company SoftBank opened a cell phone store in Tokyo and staffed it entirely with sales associates named Pepper. This wasn't as hard as it...
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China's Plan For World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy After All
Xu Li's software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank.
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Defense Secretary James Mattis Envies Silicon Valley's AI Ascent
Defense Secretary James Mattis has a lot on his mind these days. North Korea, obviously. China's expanding claims on the South China sea. Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...
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Nasa Selects Proposals to Study Galaxies, Stars, Planets
NASA has selected six astrophysics Explorers Program proposals for concept studies.
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Chicago Maps Its nderground Maze
James Jackson has a problem: He doesn't know what he's getting into.
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Meet the Company That's sing Face Recognition to Reshape China's Tech Scene
In China, face recognition is transforming many aspects of daily life.
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D.i.y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm
Not much about Makoto Koike's adult life suggests that he would be a farmer.
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Wild New Microchip Tech Could Grow Brain Cells on Your Skin
It's usually bad news to have something growing on your skin, but new technology uses that all important layer as a sort of garden to "grow" whatever types of cells...
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