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 major economic shift is underway: the rise of artificial intelligence. From tools like ChatGPT to AI-driven infrastructure maintenance, the rapid adoption of AI is poised to reshape how we work and how society operates. Although weāre still in the...

by Tomas Kellner
by Sean O'Neill
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 nationās roads more intuitively and effectively. Since its launch in 2014,...

by Jay Moye
In mining, billion-dollar decisions often rest on what happened months and years ago in the core shackāan unassuming shed near a potential goldmine where drill cores become data. Geologist David Newton should know. Early in his career, he spent long,...
by Sean O'Neill
It was still dark outside when I left my home in Dedrad, a small village in Transylvania, Romania, where the roads are as old and twisty as the stories I grew up with. I loaded my suitcase into the car,...

by Oana Crisan
With staggering results, Serelle Corn and Jeff Campbell are reshaping how billion-dollar infrastructure gets planned and delivered. And it all started with an office printer and a love story thatās pure Hollywood rom-com. These days, billion-dollar infrastructure projects are the...
by Sean O'Neill
A digital twin proved crucial when a transmission tower supplying electricity to a U.S. hospital was damaged during the COVID-19 pandemic. High-tech models reduced water loss in drought-hit Colombia, and a virtual replica improved sustainability at a university campus in...

by Kathleen Moore
Not too long ago, students at an elementary school in eastern Pakistanās Pakpattan district faced a daunting problem: Their source of drinking water was a drum filled by a contaminated tap. Bentley Systems, the global infrastructure software company, offered a...

by Kathleen Moore
As we celebrate Earth Day we find ourselves at a critical juncture in our relationship with the planet. In late March, I traveled to Washington, D.C., for a week of discussions with elected officials, appointees and staffers across state and...

by Thomas D. Krom, Ph.D.