Assistant Professor (Distributed Parallel Computing) - UMass Boston - Boston, MA
Boston, MA, United States
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Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...
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How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins
On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl.
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Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board
The Tor Project, a nonprofit digital privacy group, on Wednesday replaced its board with a new slate of directors as part of a larger shake-up after allegations...
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Reconstructing the First Atomic Bomb Test from a Chunk of Scorched Earth
If the CSI family of television shows has blunted your appetite for impossibly omniscient crime scene analysis, consider the real, and very serious, science of...
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Engineer Explores Heat Recovery from Silicon Nanowires at High Temperatures
A University of California-Irvine engineer has invented a method for analyzing nanowires at temperatures approaching 800 degrees Fahrenheit, showing the possibility...
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Operators Control Multiple Drones with Brain-Machine Interface
A researcher at Arizona State University has discovered how to control multiple robotic drones with a brain-to-machine interface.
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Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics
Hanns Tappeiner types a few lines of code into his laptop and hits "return."
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Engineered 'sand' May Help Cool Electronic Devices
A new class of high thermal conductivity materials could allow heat dissipation from power electronics, LEDs, and other applications with high heat fluxes.
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Meet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the Robot that Killed the Dallas Shooter
Much has been made of the fact that Dallas police used a robot to kill the gunman who fatally shot five officers last week.
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Exploring Networks Efficiently
Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication.
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Nasa's Bold Bet on Juno Will Pay Off. Stay Tuned.
Memory-foam mattresses. The breathing devices firefighters wear. And infrared ear thermometers that give near-instant readings.
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Silk-Based Tissue Chip Provides Promise for Drug Testing and Implantable Devices
Researchers have created a new type of tissue chip that can better represent human tissues compared with current chips, and can be more widely used for drug testing...
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
Riffle is a bandwidth and computation efficient communication system that guarantees anonymity among all honest clients as long as at least one server in the network...
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn S of Another Dallas
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...
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Robot Helps Study How First Land Animals Moved 360 Million Years Ago
A study on how early terrestrial animals began moving on mud and sand 360 million years ago could help designers create amphibious robots able to move across granular...
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The Next Great Race Between the U.s. and China Will Be Over Computer Chips
In 2014, China announced a plan to drop $150 billion on the chipmaking industry over the next decade, pulling it even with the level of investment by Intel, the...
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se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in S History
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semiautonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers...
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