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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First the Cloud, Now AI Takes on the Scientific Method
Back when I was doing research, one of my advisors once joked that, if you wait long enough, you can produce an old result using new methods, manage to get it published...
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Research Paves the Way For Reconfigurable Electronic Devices
Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have discovered a new way to create extremely thin electrically conducting sheets, which could lead to electronic circuits...
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At 'washington Post,' Tech Is Increasingly Boosting Financial Performance
When I started my career at The Washington Post in the late 1990s, the newsroom wore a dusty, outdated look as if it were paying homage to its legendary past.
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The Beeping, Gargling History of Gaming's Most Iconic Sounds
The bouncy beeps of Pac-Man. The percussive build-up in Legend of Zelda. The effusive gibberish of The Sims. The sounds in videogames tell us to speed up, start...
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Embattled German Industrials Pursue the Factory of the Future
The clanking, hulking factory in a rural patch of northwest Germany that produces 22-ton combine harvesters has lately been turning out machines with a technical...
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How Big Data Mines Personal Info to Craft Fake News and Manipulate Voters
The opening chords of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" rocked a hotel ballroom in New York City as a nattily dressed British man strode onstage...
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Wanted: More Data, the Dirtier the Better
To distill a clear message from growing piles of unruly genomics data, researchers often turn to meta-analysis—a tried-and-true statistical procedure for combining...
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New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing
People with Parkinson's disease may show hints of motor difficulty years before an official diagnosis, but current methods for catching early symptoms require clinic...
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The Art of Exoplanets
The moon hanging in the night sky sent Robert Hurt's mind into deep space—to a region some 40 light years away, in fact, where seven Earth-sized planets crowded...
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A Guide to Challenges Facing Self-Driving Car Technologists
In the minds of many in Silicon Valley and in the auto industry, it is inevitable that cars will eventually drive themselves.
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Chinese Exam Authorities se Facial Recognition, Drones to Catch Cheats
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...
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The AI Doctor Orders More Tests
Few U.S. industries are growing as fast as health care, but the big public-cloud companies—Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google—have struggled to crack the $3.2 trillion...
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Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts
It started about seven years ago. Iran's top nuclear scientists were being assassinated in a string of similar attacks: Assailants on motorcycles were pulling up...
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The Head of the U.s. Patent Office Has Abruptly Resigned
America's top patent and trademark official has abruptly resigned from her post.
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Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI
Apple's iMac updates and new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company's World Wide Developers keynote. But tucked away in the middle were a short...
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AI Summit Aims to Help World's Poorest
In the world's wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving...
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Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
To Gwen Beatty, a junior at the high school in this proud, struggling, Trump-supporting town, the new science teacher's lessons on climate change seemed explicitly...
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How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...
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Who Will Pay For the Future If Not the Robots?
RRobots are taking over the world's workforce—and why shouldn't they?
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Ibm Research Alliance Builds New Transistor For 5-Nm Technology
IBM and its research partners have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5-nanometer chips, paving the way...
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Center for Global Security Research - Postdoctoral Researcher - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, United States
Administrative Specialist - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
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Tenure Track Faculty - School of Computational Science and Engineering - Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA, United States