Perspectives

by Tomas Kellner
Jack Kavanagh is leading an effort to make municipal data work harder. As the open data lead at Smart Dublin, a joint initiative of the Irish capitalās four local authorities, Kavanagh manages a portal that...
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Jack Kavanagh is leading an effort to make municipal data work harder. As the open data lead at Smart Dublin, a joint initiative of the Irish capitalās four local authorities, Kavanagh manages a portal that consolidates public datasets ranging from...

by Tomas Kellner
What makes a city smart? For Luke Antoniou, senior editor at SmartCitiesWorld, itās using data and technology to improve how people live, work, and move through urban spaces. We caught up with Antoniou in Dublin in May at the first...

by Tomas Kellner
Infrastructure is made of steel and concrete, but its future is being built in code. A new wave of engineers, scientists, and visionaries is using artificial intelligence (AI), open data, and curiosity to solve problems that once seemed too hard...

by Jay Moye
At the 2025 Bentley Illuminate conference in Atlanta, one presentation turned many heads. Kyle Rosenmeyer, a model-based design leader at the engineering firm VHB and a Bentley software superuser, talked about a simple but powerful use of generative AI in...

by Tomas Kellner
Infrastructure isnāt quick to evolve. Its sheer scale, cost, and complexity can make change painfully slow. But every so often, a person, an idea, or a tool cuts through ā shifting how people see, plan, or act. Sometimes itās a...
by Sean O'Neill
The inaugural Cesium Developer Conference landed in Philadelphia this summer, bringing together a global crowd of developers, climate scientists, engineers, game designers, and space technologists. Over three days, they explored how open 3D geospatial technology is transforming the way we...

by Tomas Kellner
Needless repetition is something Apurba Tribedi cannot abide. It was a formative frustration: every year, the river near his childhood home in Malda, India, burst its banks. The floodwaters washed out local houses, destroyed possessions, and sometimes forced families to...
by Sean O'Neill
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
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