Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are looking to implement a vast network of sensors and devices
In an ideal world, your data would sit in your home under your control, it would only go to people you want it to go to. -Anind K. Dey
on their campus and into the city of Pittsburgh through a Google-sponsored initiative called the “Internet of Things.” Developers believe the project has the potential to profoundly change the way we approach the world around us as well as improve city infrastructure, communication and decision-making. But what would it look like if our cars could talk to coffee makers and our calendars to air conditioning units? Lead investigator for the project and director of CMU’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Anind K. Dey, shares his hopes for the CMU undertaking.
WESA Celebrates - Inventing Pittsburgh (starts at 23:04)
Margaret J. Krauss reports that while the city wasn't a major center of car manufacturing, the region's thinkers and tinkerers got America motoring. And continue to do so in the 21st century.
MeadowcroftRockshelter (starts at 27:25)
If not for the curiosity of a Washington County farmer six decades ago, the oldest site of human habitation in North America might have never been discovered. Senator John Heinz History Center President and CEO Andy Masich joins us to discuss Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village in Avella, Pa.
Mid Summer Classic (starts at 37:57)
Major League Baseball's annual All-Star Game will be played tomorrow night in Cincinatti. Our sports guy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sportswriter Emeritus Bob Dvorchak, will preview the game as well as tonight's revamped Home Run Derby. He will also look at the history of the All-Star Game, the ones played in Pittsburgh, and the years when it was played twice.