News Room

It’s the hottest topic in sports right now. Try turning on ESPN tomorrow and see if you can make it 30 minutes without hearing endless speculation about a college football season that frankly everyone knows next to nothing about. We’re less than a week from when college football is set to begin, yet there’s still way more unanswered questions than confirmed adjustments. We all want a college football season. I’ve enjoyed three amusing years of Pitt football since my arrival in Oakland, and I didn’t expect to spend my first Saturdays of senior year studying instead of consuming college football at unhealthy rates.

Online marketplaces such as Amazon.com, Uber Technologies, and Airbnb have disrupted the retailing, transportation, and hospitality sectors with their ease of use, convenience, and ability to reduce the cost of searching and matching for consumers. However, a recent court decision has the potential to disrupt their entire business model. The ruling addresses some of the underlying risks of online marketplaces that many Americans have neglected when using their services.

The U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy defines AI as technology that enables computers and other automated systems to perform tasks that have historically required human cognition and what we typically consider to be human decision-making abilities. The history of railroading is replete with advances in mechanical, civil, electrical and chemical engineering. In no small part, advances in AI and computer science are generating even more momentum and driving a new technological revolution expected to dramatically transform all fields of engineering and the future of railroading.

Creating student cohorts of limited size is an effective way that school administrators can stem COVID-19 transmissions when classrooms reopen for in-person instruction, says one expert who has studied how the coronavirus could spread from schools to communities. That means reducing a class of 20 that meets every day to 10 students who come to school twice a week, for example, while also ensuring strict social distancing and sanitization, says Pinar Keskinocak, a systems engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems.