[3] She currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she is a senior research scholar in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
[4][5] Caruso began her career as a technology journalist reporting for two trade publications; in 1984, she was a columnist for InfoWorld, and in 1985, she was the West Coast Editor at Electronics.
[9] Beginning in April 1997, she took a one-year position as visiting scholar at Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto, California, a think tank and product incubator funded by Paul Allen.
Caruso is a member of the Global Business Network, and an affiliated researcher at the Center for Risk Perception and Communication at Carnegie Mellon University.
In 1997, Caruso provided on-air commentary and interviews with industry personalities for an MSNBC cable television show about the Internet, called The Site.