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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Apple's China Lesson: Think Different, But Not Too Different
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook will co-chair the Chinese government's showcase global business forum next month, underscoring his increasingly high profile...
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How Social Networking Sites Can Crack Down on Cyberbullying
A Cornell research team has discovered a way to encourage people to intervene in cases of cyberbullying on social networking sites.
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Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs
I took an Uber to an artificial-intelligence conference at MIT one recent morning, and the driver asked me how long it would take for autonomous vehicles to take...
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.S. Blocks a Chinese Deal Amid Rising Tensions Over Technology
United States officials have torpedoed a Chinese state-backed group's plan to buy an American electronics company, signaling the Trump administration's continuing...
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Researchers Join AI-Enabled Counterparts for 'Collaborative Autonomy'
A team of firefighters clears a building in a blazing inferno, searching rooms for people trapped inside or hotspots that must be extinguished. Except this isn't...
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This 'Gray Hat' Hacker Breaks Into Your Car, to Prove a Point
Cybercrime is expanding beyond computers and cellphones. Cars, washers and dryers, and even toasters are going online—an evolution of technology called the ...
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Inside the Command Center Keeping the Winter Olympics Safe
It's a Sunday during the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, at one in the afternoon—at least in this simulation.
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Why A.I. Researchers at Google Got Desks Next to the Boss
If you want to understand the priorities of a technology company, first look at the seating chart.
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Bad News FBI, Snowden's Favorite Chat App Is Booming
The encrypted chat app Signal, which NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden once said he uses every day, just got a mighty $50 million in funding intended to boost the...
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Twitter 'Bot' Purge Causes Outcry from Trollerati as Follower Counts Fall
A number of "alt-right," pro-Trump, and self-described conservative social media personalities awoke this morning to find that they had a lot fewer followers on...
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The Geeks Who Put a Stop to Pennsylvania's Partisan Gerrymandering
The morning John Kennedy was set to testify last December, he woke up at 1:30 am, in an unfamiliar hotel room in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, adrenaline coursing through...
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The Father of the Internet Sees His Invention Reflected Back Through a 'Black Mirror'
In 1984, two men were thinking a lot about the Internet. One of them invented it. The other is an artist who would see its impact on society with uncanny prescience...
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Rise of the Data Protection Officer, the Hottest Tech Ticket in Town
They may not have the cachet of entrepreneurs, or geek chic of developers, but data protection officers are suddenly the hottest properties in technology.
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Supertall Towers Are Driving an Elevator Revolution
Two thousand years ago, the Romans used elevators—powered by pulleys, levers, and slaves—to raise gladiators and wild beasts into the Colosseum for death-match...
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FBI Director Warns Huawei Phones Pose Spy Threat
The head of the FBI has warned that the Chinese government may be spying on U.S. citizens who use smartphones made by Huawei.
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Hyperinflation Meets Tech: Cash-Scarce Venezuela Sees Boom in Payment Apps
Widerven Villegas and his brother wash some 30 cars a day at a parking lot in Caracas. Despite charging less than 50 cents, nobody pays them in cash.
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Can Social Media Data Help Predict Threats or Identify Fake News?
Professor Conrad Tucker of Penn State University has received funding from the U.S. Air Force to investigate whether crowd-sourced data from social media can be...
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Kelli Ward Touts Endorsement from Fake-News Site
It looked as if Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward had scored a big endorsement: On Oct. 28, she posted a link on her campaign website and blasted out a Facebook...
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Crypto-Currency Craze 'Hinders Search for Alien Life'
Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researchers want to expand operations at two observatories.
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Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook, and the World
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
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FULL-TIME TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN ELECTRICAL OR COMPUTER ENGINEERING - The University of Alabama in Huntsville - Huntsville, AL
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