The battery technology and cooling systems needed for electric aircraft to lift people and cargo are getting closer to reality, but they're still very different from electric cars and trucks.
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Reducing the need for trucking by delivering some packages with electric drones could save fuel, and potentially carbon emissions. But how much and in what circumstances?
Micro-targeted online advertising has destroyed how Americans share experiences and a common knowledge base. The fix for this societal and political problem is as simple now as it was in 1840.
Consumers with high hopes of driverless vehicles improving safety might be looking past the boring near-term advances that could make a real difference. It happened before – more than 60 years ago.
A recent study shows that large piles of coal produce measurable quantities of fine particulate air pollution within a 25-mile radius. Covering coal trains and storage piles could reduce the problem.
Recent federal changes to password-strength guidelines echo the findings of research we've been doing. It's time to think differently about what makes a password secure.
Even Donald Trump has paid his respects to Lincoln as an emblem of unity.
Coal-fired power plants produce air pollution that kills thousands of Americans every year. President Trump's embrace of coal energy will delay a shift to cleaner fuels that is saving money and lives.
A European Union law will require human-understandable explanations for algorithms' decisions. A team of researchers has found a way to provide that, even for complex calculations.
Most of today's computer languages make it hard for programmers to protect users' privacy and security. The fix is to take those tasks out of human hands entirely.
The ethics and psychology of trust suggest ways we might learn to understand self-driving cars, but also show why doing so might be more challenging than we expect.
There's more than one reason, according to two professors who have studied 25 years of Clinton's public life.
Professors in dynamic tech fields won't stay in academia for three or four decades. The best scientists in the world should have the freedom to pursue their careers as they choose.
Behavioral research shows why a heavy-handed approach like the UK's soda tax works better than the mere warning that San Francisco wants to put in advertisements.
Apple's refusal to back down in its fight with the FBI is a sharp reversal from just a few years ago when it was the government urging tech companies to do more to protect consumer privacy.
Rwanda requires the use of renewable energy to power up healthcare clinics in rural parts of the country.
Recent data thefts that appear to be carried out by nations are unsettling for many reasons and raise profound questions about how we should handle them.
Behavioral scientists have seized on social media and their massive data sets as a way to quickly and cheaply figure out what people are thinking and doing. But some of those tweets and thumbs ups can…
JPMorgan Chase early last month disclosed that cyber thieves pilfered account data on 76 million households and seven million small businesses over the summer, one of the biggest breaches ever and only…
When we make important social decisions – which political candidate to vote for, whether to trust someone with our money, whether a person is guilty of a crime – we’d like to think we do so rationally…
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Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Dean, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
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Mellon Distinguished Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University
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Professor, Tepper School of Business, Engineering and Public Policy and Co-Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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Associate Research Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Research Assistant in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
