Brandon Moore, executive director of Tuscaloosa’s urban development office, and Erik Johnson, an assistant economics professor at the University of Alabama, hold a patent-pending device of the type strapped to garbage trucks making their rounds in the City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (University of Alabama) Tuscaloosa, Ala., tackles blight with garbage-truck cameras and AI The city is currently piloting technology that can automatically flag nuisances like overgrown grass or abandoned vehicles and appliances. Feb 11, 2021 By Colin Wood
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (Flickr / Jimmy Emerson) Alabama launches contact tracing app based on Google-Apple API The app will be targeted at students returning to the state's college campuses. Meanwhile Google says as many as 20 states are developing apps based on the… Aug 3, 2020 By Benjamin Freed
To prevent traffic fatalities, Alabama invests $1.8 million in data science The governor has funded research to gather data, develop software and identify new strategies promoting traffic safety. Aug 10, 2017 By Jason Shueh