Perspectives

by Kathleen Moore
For Roni Deitz, this work is personal. She grew up in New Jersey, so Deitz had never experienced a major hurricane. Then Hurricane Ike stormed ashore the Texas coastline in 2008, while she was an...

by Kathleen Moore
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A blood-red helicopter swooped low over a French village at the foot of Mont Blanc, dangling what looked like a miniature wrecking ball. Renaud Keriven feared that his enthusiasm for the project ā for the chance to change how we...
by Sean O'Neill
For Roni Deitz, this work is personal. She grew up in New Jersey, so Deitz had never experienced a major hurricane. Then Hurricane Ike stormed ashore the Texas coastline in 2008, while she was an engineering student in Houston. āI...

by Kathleen Moore
Philadelphia can claim a variety of firsts ā from where the first general-purpose digital computer was built to being home to the countryās first botanical garden. Letās add another one: Hosting the inaugural Cesium Developer Conference, an event that brings...

by Jay Moye
Leopold Bloom, the protagonist in James Joyceās Ulyssess, famously quipped that a āgood puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub.ā Nearly a century later, Rory McCann solved the puzzle. The software developer and open data enthusiast has...

by Tomas Kellner
Ezzat Sabry hung up the phone call, overcome by excitement and pride. Geomatex, an Egyptian geo-intelligence firm where he serves as founder and managing director, had just been selected to help overhaul the legendary sound-and-light show at the Pyramids of...
by Thomas Kohnstamm
Karl-Alexandre Jahjah is nearly impossible to catch off guard ā or to outrun. He, where quick thinking means survival and glory. He also runs marathons, including one less than a year after rupturing his Achilles tendon. That mindset ā face...
by Sean O'Neill
We’re only halfway through 2025, yet weāve already brought you stories from around the world about how AI and digital twins are transforming the way we design, build, and maintain the infrastructure around us. From flood-proofing the bustling streets of...

by Kathleen Moore
Nothing is certain except death and taxes, the clichĆ© goes. But even taxes come with surprisesālike the cost of crumbling infrastructure. āWhen we fail to invest in infrastructure, that’s a hidden tax we pay today,ā said Tom Smith, executive director...

by Tomas Kellner
The Premier League is known as the Greatest Show on Earth, and itās not just hype. The English soccer competition has a worldwide TV audience of around 3.2 billion people, from fans in Los Angeles who rise before dawn to...
by Chris Noon