W. Ben Towne Email & Phone Number

United States

Advising on entrepreneurship, strategy, and technology.Smartblocks tokenizes [especially commercial] real estate, legally, allowing for partial ownership in an asset class where the status quo practically requires overconcentration. It has only been a matter of time before a company figured out the legal aspects and did the technical work to build this.

Advising on entrepreneurship, strategy, and technology.Fleetmetrica reduces the risk of accidents involving trucks and improves sustainability aspects of truck transportation.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Our mission is “providing public benefit through usable technology interfaces, easing access to information and services available through government agencies and for-profit and other nonprofit non-governmental organizations, with a special focus on underserved communities” to be accomplished by “designing, implementing, and facilitating the use of, and.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

In this role, I served as a consultant on advanced technologies, especially blockchain. I became a Certified Ethereum Professional and even before completing the certification consulted and advised on strategy as well as implementation. I served as an intrapreneur and full-stack web3 developer for client and internally incubated projects, which were.

Warrendale, Pennsylvania, United States

As a contractor to a standard-setting professional society and affiliated consortia-building nonprofit, I helped large, distributed groups in the mobility engineering industry secure the aerospace supply chain and address safety & security challenges of autonomous & electrified ground mobility. I provided expertise on a variety of topics (especially.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

In this role, I designed and led experiments for the creation of new detailed knowledge about the ways that computers impact society (and vice versa), and the impacts of design decisions on platforms for large-scale collaboration. I did full-stack implementation for several projects aiding in data collection and analysis and authored or co-authored several.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

In this role, I helped build technology platforms to connect & enable leading social entrepreneurs. Providing technology support at the highest levels of the organization also exposed me to valuable perspectives and learning opportunities about finding high-leverage points where small changes can yield large societal benefits, in financially sustainable.

Westchester County, NY

I worked on research projects in the Governance Science research group, including some technical challenges associated with setting up a pipeline for analyzing large data sets through graph database analysis.

Group 65 (Advanced Networks and Applications) specializes in high-performance airborne heterogeneous networking, exploring sensor and decision-support systems.In this role, I investigated virtualization solutions for a scalable network emulation testbed. This work allows the Group to emulate very large networks to test new protocols (etc.), with a more.

2006-9: Tutor: Physics, Calculus, Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering: Communications.2005-8: Computing Services department: User services (tech support), new deployments/upgrades, website work, & media digitization.2007: Technology & Community Development research.2008: Economic Empowerment & Global Learning Project (EEGLP) New Orleans.

Phd, Societal Computing

As summarized at sc.cs.cmu.edu: “Our PhD program in the integrated, innovative discipline of Societal Computing provides the techniques.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computation, Organizations, & Society

Bs With Honors, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Environmental Sustainability Committees, Christian Fellowship groups, Arts Society.

Ba / Summa Cum Laude, Community Development

This is an interdisciplinary social sciences program blending components from sociology, psychology, economics, political/policy sciences.

Certificate Of Graduation, Civic Operations