Red Whittaker, Andrew Moore Receive Keys to the City From Pittsburgh Mayor

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto presented keys to the city to Carnegie Mellon University's Red Whittaker and Andrew Moore on Friday, calling the two "leaders of the fourth industrial revolution." Peduto, who will leave office at the end of the year after serving two terms as mayor and a career in city hall, said it has been an honor to work with Whittaker and Moore throughout much of the 2000s as Pittsburgh emerged as a hotbed of tech talent and grew its economy around robotics, autonomy, computer science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The mayor described Whittaker and Moore as humble men who love Pittsburgh and chose to stay in the city to train top-level scientists and develop transformative technologies. They created new industries that not only changed Pittsburgh but changed the world," Peduto said. "They changed Pittsburgh beyond its economy and brought it back to the world stage."