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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A Student-Data Collector Drops Out
To hear executives at inBloom tell it, their $100 million education technology start-up is shutting down after only 15 months of operation because it was too far...
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Sex and Race Discrimination in Academia Starts Even Before Grad School
A study of how likely faculty were to respond to a request to meet with a student to discuss research opportunities found that professors were more likely to...
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Four Questions To Ask Before Paying For An Employee's Training
An employee asks you to pay for additional training that he says he needs to do his job better. How do you know that the training will benefit the company?
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The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets
The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car.
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'double-Duty' Electrolyte Enables New Chemistry For Longer-Lived Batteries
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new and unconventional battery chemistry aimed at producing batteries...
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A Global Push for More Computer Science in Classrooms is Starting to Bear Fruit
In September, when computer science becomes part of England's primary-school curriculum, compuational games are likely to become a common sight in the country's...
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For Women in Tech, Pay Gap Is nusually Small
Technology, with its bro culture, has not been a particularly welcoming profession for women. So it is surprising that in the tech sector, the pay gap between women...
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Smart Components That Assemble Themselves
Skylar Tibbits launches the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, where researchers are building materials that can coalesce on their own to form structures.
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NASA Hubble Exhibit at National Air and Space Museum
Two instruments that played critical roles in discoveries made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope now are on display in an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air...
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Apple's Display Tech Lets Users Interact with 3D Objects in Mid-Air
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published an Apple patent application for an "Interactive three-dimensional display system," which details a method of presenting...
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Mapping the Road to Quantum Gravity
The road uniting quantum field theory and general relativity — the two great theories of modern physics – has been impassable for 80 years. Could a tool from...
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Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge Emphasizes Applications, Scalability
The 2014 Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge, which is taking place this week, aims to promote both fundamental and practical technology, improve students' ability...
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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014
Technology news is full of incremental developments, but few of them are true milestones.
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How America's Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future
Stories set in the future are often judged, as time passes, on whether they come true or not.
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Economic Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett spells out steps the United States should take to compete in an increasingly global economy and rapidly changing technological environment...
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How to Build a Neanderthal
The DNA sequences of Neanderthals and other extinct human relatives have exposed lost migrations, sexual escapades and even new species.
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For Project Ara, It's Module—Not App—Ideas Wanted
From afar, the device in Garrett Kinsman's palm looked like a prototype of Google's Project Aramodular smartphone: a shiny slab of a handset composed of thin, removable...
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Computer-Assisted Accelerator Design
Stephen Brooks uses his own custom software tool to fire electron beams into a virtual model of proposed particle accelerator designs. The goal: Keep the cost...
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The Most Expensive Lottery Ticket in the World
No Exit, the new book from Gideon Lewis-Kraus, should be required reading for anybody who thinks it might be a good idea to found a startup in Silicon Valley.
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