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Mark Pittman parlayed his frustration with a broken traffic light into a pioneering startup that today uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine vision, and cloud computing to help maintain the nation’s roads more intuitively and effectively....
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Leopold Bloom, the protagonist in James Joyce’s Ulyssess, famously quipped that a “good puzzle would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub.” Nearly a century later, Rory McCann solved the puzzle. The software developer and open data enthusiast has...
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...
Mark Pittman parlayed his frustration with a broken traffic light into a pioneering startup that today uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine vision, and cloud computing to help maintain the nation’s roads more intuitively and effectively. Since its launch in 2014,...
Devastating wildfires tore through the hills surrounding Los Angeles in January, leaving emergency responders to navigate a maze of smoke, debris, and melted street signs. Familiar roads and landmarks were rendered unrecognizable. Like other densely populated areas hit by natural...
Louisiana is no stranger to devastating storms and floods, but you’d never know it every February when New Orleans erupts in Mardi Gras, a festival of sound and color flavored with boisterous parades, jazz, and spicy crawfish boils. Locals know...
Ithaca is a picturesque town in upstate New York famous for its waterfalls and gorges, and the world-renowned Cornell University. The area has long been hailed as a beacon of progress. Cornell’s students and scientists, for example, helped discover that...
On Saturday, Everton FC played Manchester United for a final time at Goodison Park—the historic Liverpool stadium where the Premier League rivals first squared off in 1892. One of the world’s oldest and most storied football clubs is now preparing...
When Dennis Keeley joined the Dublin Fire Brigade in 1986, he was quickly introduced to a key piece of data-gathering technology. “We had this 6-inch nail in our control center where we’d impale and store the paper records of emergency...
From War-Torn Ukraine to the Forefront of Digital Twins: A Civil Engineer’s Hard Journey To Make Cities More Resilient From War-Torn Ukraine to the Forefront of Digital Twins: A Civil Engineer’s Hard Journey To Make Cities More Resilient From War-Torn...