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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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Nothing is certain except death and taxes, the cliché goes. But even taxes come with surprises—like the cost of crumbling infrastructure. “When we fail to invest in infrastructure, that’s a hidden tax we pay today,” said Tom Smith, executive director...
The Premier League is known as the Greatest Show on Earth, and it’s not just hype. The English soccer competition has a worldwide TV audience of around 3.2 billion people, from fans in Los Angeles who rise before dawn to...
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 we’re still in the...
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,...
In mining, billion-dollar decisions often rest on what happened months and years ago in the core shack—an unassuming shed near a potential goldmine where drill cores become data. Geologist David Newton should know. Early in his career, he spent long,...
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,...
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 that’s pure Hollywood rom-com. These days, billion-dollar infrastructure projects are the...
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...