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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Companies Are Flooding Earth's Orbit with Satellites, but No One's Directing Traffic
Companies around the globe are launching an increasing number of satellites, crowding Earth's orbit in an effort to satisfy the ravenous on-demand desire for more...
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Hey Robot, Shimmy Like a Centipede
Researchers at Kyoto University have asked why centipedes move with such dexterity, and have turned to computer simulations and ultimately robotics to find an answer...
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On
Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)...
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Mars Rover's Laser Can Now Target Rocks All by Itself
New software is enabling ChemCam, the laser spectrometer on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, to select rock targets autonomously — the first time autonomous target...
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Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...
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Quantum Drag
Current in one iron magnetic sheet can create quantized spin waves in a separate sheet, a finding that researchers say could play a role in the development of smaller...
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The nsung Heroes of Crispr
When Blake Wiedenheft started studying microbes, his work was both remote and obscure.
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Research Team Develops Plastic Flexible Magnetic Memory Device
A novel technique to implant a high-performance magnetic memory chip on a flexible plastic surface marks a breakthrough in flexible electronics and brings researchers...
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Hololens Augmented Reality to Foil Hack Attacks in Factories
The robotic production line is churning along just fine when Kevin Jones plugs a USB stick into the control computer.
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This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals
When historians look back at the turmoil over prejudice and policing in the U.S. over the past few years, they're unlikely to dwell on the case of Eric Loomis.
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'smart' Thread Collects Diagnostic Data When Sutured Into Tissue
Researchers have integrated nanoscale sensors, electronics, and microfluidics into threads that can be sutured through multiple layers of tissue to gather diagnostic...
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Results, Results, Results: Most-Compelling Space Station Science Honored at R&D Conference
Research, and getting to the eventual results of that research, can take quite a bit of time.
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DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...
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Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics
Hanns Tappeiner types a few lines of code into his laptop and hits "return."
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Engineered 'sand' May Help Cool Electronic Devices
A new class of high thermal conductivity materials could allow heat dissipation from power electronics, LEDs, and other applications with high heat fluxes.
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Meet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the Robot that Killed the Dallas Shooter
Much has been made of the fact that Dallas police used a robot to kill the gunman who fatally shot five officers last week.
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Nasa's Bold Bet on Juno Will Pay Off. Stay Tuned.
Memory-foam mattresses. The breathing devices firefighters wear. And infrared ear thermometers that give near-instant readings.
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Silk-Based Tissue Chip Provides Promise for Drug Testing and Implantable Devices
Researchers have created a new type of tissue chip that can better represent human tissues compared with current chips, and can be more widely used for drug testing...
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn S of Another Dallas
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...
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Robot Helps Study How First Land Animals Moved 360 Million Years Ago
A study on how early terrestrial animals began moving on mud and sand 360 million years ago could help designers create amphibious robots able to move across granular...
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