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...
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David Settlemyer had a distinct knack for making the impossible seem inevitable. Armed with a Southern drawl and an arsenal of folksy colloquialisms ā “as useful as socks on a rooster” was a favorite ā the Kannapolis, North Carolina native...

by Jay Moye
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
Setting foot on alien worlds is back on the agenda, big time. NASAās Artemis program is aiming to send astronauts to explore parts of the lunar surface no human has ever visited ā targeting rugged, shadowy terrain near the Moonās...
by Sean O'Neill
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