Faculty Mini Sabbatical Program - Summer 2025 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, United States
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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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''born at the Right Time': How Kid Hackers Became Cyberwarriors
A few years ago, when Greg Martin was in his mid 20s and teaching a computer security course for NASA engineers, he stumbled on an arcane bit of information that...
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E-Sports at College, With Stars and Scholarships
Loc Tran is a big man on campus at San Jose State University in Northern California.
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The Anti-Plagiarism Machine
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.
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Compugirls: Young Women Have Role to Play in Technology Field
CompuGirls is an NSF-funded organization based at Arizona State University that provides girls aged eight to 12 from under-resourced schools with activities to...
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Women in Tech: Change the Conversation
At the G20 Summit-sponsored Women in Leadership conference in Brisbane, Australia in November, leaders pledged to reduce the gender gap in workforce participation...
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niversities Push Harder Into Realm of Startups
Universities are stepping up efforts to create "spinouts," or business startups born from some of the cutting-edge research of their students or faculty.
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Fsu Program to Address Growing Demand For Drone Operators
Florida State University is set to launch a new program that will have students excited about their instructors droning on and on. A new course, Introduction to...
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Material Question
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...
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What Are Moocs Good For?
A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...
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Colleges, Labs Develop STEM Core Curriculum
A consortium of community colleges, national labs, and nonprofit educational institutes in California are pushing to create an educational core curriculum to...
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The Sites That Know Your Dream Job Before You Do
Maybe you read Gone Girl because Amazon recommended it; watched Breaking Bad because Netflix suggested you'd like it; even met the love of your life because OKCupid...
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Print Thyself
In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month...
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Boston Is an Innovation Hotbed and Doesn't Care Whether You Know It
The engineers and scientists spilling out of Greater Boston’s world-class universities built the foundations of the modern computing era and amassed the densest...
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7 Largest U.S. Districts to Teach Computer Science
The U.S.'s seven largest school districts, which include New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, Houston, and Fort Lauderdale, are joining more than...
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Baer's Odyssey: Meet the Serial Inventor Who Built the World's First Game Console
Even if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer.
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Google's Intelligence Designer
Demis Hassabis started playing chess at age four and soon blossomed into a child prodigy.
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At Israel's Mit, Arab Women (and Men) Are Suddenly Thriving
Here's a little-told success story: Israeli Arabs, women in particular, have made huge strides over the past decade at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology...
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A Googler's Quest to Teach Machines How to nderstand Emotions
Quoc Le sees the world as a series of numbers.
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These Programming Skills Will Earn You the Most Money
If you want to provoke an argument among computer programmers, ask them to pick their favorite coding language or framework. But even more contentious in an environment...
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How Sensors That Test Our Stress Could Revolutionize Product Design
What do Best Buy, the Blue Man Group and Google X have in common? They've all tapped Elliott Hedman and his sensors to help make their stuff better.
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