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by Tomas Kellner
Tomas Ward isnāt your typical computer science professor. A self-described ānoob,ā Ward heads up data analytics at the School of Computing at Dublin City University and serves as site director of Insight, one of Irelandās...
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Tomas Ward isnāt your typical computer science professor. A self-described ānoob,ā Ward heads up data analytics at the School of Computing at Dublin City University and serves as site director of Insight, one of Irelandās largest AI research centers. But...

by Tomas Kellner
At Google AI for the Planet, an event recently held during London Climate Action Week in the British capital, Googleās global leaders in sustainability came together to explore a pressing question: How can artificial intelligence (AI) help us create a...
by Sean O'Neill
Straight lines may be efficient, but in Barcelona, theyāre practically a provocation. The chaotic and curvy forms of the cityās iconic buildings are now part of its identity ā from the jagged columns of La Sagrada Familia, which stretch heavenward...
by Chris Noon
by Christof Lorenz
Some engineering marvels were once highly controversial projects. As the Empire State Building grew above Manhattan during the Great Depression, many New Yorkers complained that the iconic Art Deco skyscraper was a waste of money. Throughout the 1990s, security-conscious Brits...
by Chris Noon
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
The French poet Alphonse de Lamartine famously proclaimed that the city of Pau in the southwest of France has āthe most beautiful view of the Earth, just as Naples has the most beautiful view of the sea.ā He was talking...
by Dorothea Manou
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