Using highly scientific methodology as well as algorithms snuck out of
NASA and Google,
Wired Magazine analyzed cities across the US to find
the top 10 places to get your geek on. The list of Top Ten Tech Towns is included in
Wired's January issue.
To create the list, the folks at
Wired assessed the geek cred of more than 30 major US cities by looking at criteria such as proximity to top-ranked engineering schools, tech jobs, per capita, availability of free Wi-Fi and number of Craigslist postings per capita.
Pittsburgh received a "10" for comic book stores per capita, a "7" for proximity to top-ranked engineering schools and a "6" for availability of free Wi-Fi.
In the list, Pittsburgh ranks after Raleigh-Durham and ahead of New York City:
PITTSBURGH
Come for the country's top-ranked computer science school; stay for the robotics startups that Carnegie Mellon alums are founding. If androids aren't your style, try for a gig at Google's new engineering office.
To see
Wired's enire list of Top Ten Tech Towns, go
here.