WSJ: How Pittsburgh Has Become a Hot Tech Center. Sort of.
Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal article by James R Hagerty.
Pittsburgh, whose prosperity once relied heavily on Andrew Carnegie’s steel mills, now draws much of its vibrancy from another legacy of the Scottish industrialist: Carnegie Mellon University.
CMU’s expertise in computer science and robotics is helping to draw high-tech jobs to the Pittsburgh metro area, as shown in a new study by the Burning Glass Institute ranking cities in terms of the “future readiness” of their labor forces.
Pittsburgh ranks fifth among large metro areas in the “momentum” category—or the growth in the number of technology workers and demand for advanced skills, according to the Burning Glass study. In that category, the Pittsburgh metro area trailed only those of Seattle; San Jose, Calif.; San Francisco; and Austin, Texas. The institute cited demand for software skills, including cybersecurity. Much of the demand for those skills comes from a growing array of tech companies and the presence of two major banks, Bank of New York Mellon and PNC Financial Services Group.