Scientists working to understand how lifestyle, environmental exposures, and family history contribute to health and wellbeing are fundamentally interested in causal links. Catch that word “causal”? That means we want to understand when one thing causes something else to happen.

David Kulpanowski has an important job. As an IT business systems analyst with Austin-Travis County EMS, he’s responsible for tracking ambulance response times in the City of Austin and then conducting simulation models to see how they can be improved.

From our outgoing chair, Junfeng Jiao:

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are working with state and local agencies to create a mobile application that will improve the way emergency departments respond to flooding.

Everyone on the planet is affected by climate change in some way. Now, a student duo will set out across Texas to tell their stories.

As a computing researcher, I have spent the past two decades developing software and devices that allow humans to use technology to interact with their physical world and the people around them. This work has ranged from digital games that use real-time data to encourage healthy behavior changes…

Joseph Diaz takes the 801 rapid bus every day from his home in Central Austin to the Georgian Acres neighborhood in North Austin to get to his job. The bus lets off at the North Lamar transit station on U.S. 183. Diaz, 22, walks across the highway to check in for work at Jail to Jobs on East Powell…

In March 2021, Good Systems hosted a first-of-its-kind event with the World Economic Forum, inviting researchers and industry leaders to talk about government procurement of artificial intelligence, or — simply — how state, local, and federal government agencies buy AI technologies like computer…

After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the East Coast in 2012, 911 systems became so overloaded that people couldn’t get through by phone to report an emergency. At a loss for how to reach out for help, people turned to Twitter to post distress calls, which the New York Fire Department began…

Nitrogen and oxygen make up 99% of the air we breathe, but that’s not all that’s swirling around us as we go about our day. Other compounds like carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide, together with fine particles like dust and smoke, can contribute to air pollution that has adverse effects on our…