The technology explosion that began during the last decade continues to influence the way consumers obtain, digest and store information. The same technological shift has drastically impacted the bottom lines of digital content providers such as record labels, book publishers and production studios.
As social networking becomes more popular, corporations and businesses are attempting to devise effective organizational policies that guide employees through the digital domain. Conventional corporate wisdom typically prohibits or strictly governs leisure blogging and social networking while employees are on the company clock, but recent research emerging from Carnegie Mellon University suggests that this could inhibit knowledge sharing within the company, and thus have some negative impact on productivity.
Robert C. Hampshire, assistant professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III College, has won the National Science Foundation's (NSF) prestigious CAREER Award.
The research objective of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award is to develop methods for the modeling and optimization of smart mobility services. Bike sharing programs, smart parking systems, and person-2-person car sharing are the focus of the research program. The research will contribute to the analysis of spatial nonstationary queueing networks.
The research program, which will be led by Robert Hampshire beginning in July 2011, includes empirical analysis, analytic modeling, and simulation studies of the aforementioned smart mobility services. The tangible products of this research includes software and algorithms for the management of these smart mobility services, documentation of research results, evaluation of pilot programs, issues of an operations research graphic novel, and the development of educational materials on smart mobility services.
More information about Hampshire's CAREER Award can be found on the NSF website.
Yahoo! Inc. has partnered with iLab to sponsor a speaker series at Carnegie Mellon University to foster communication and collaboration among leaders in industry and academia.
