Faculty Lecturer-Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - McGill University - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Montreal, Canada
Montreal, PQ, Canada
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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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nblinking Eyes Track Employees
A digital Big Brother is coming to work, for better or worse.
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Robot Can Be Programmed By Casually Talking to It
Ashutosh Saxena of Cornell University is teaching robots to understand and respond to instructions in natural language from various speakers.
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Bletchley Park: No Longer the World's Best Kept Secret
Codebreakers credited with shortening World War Two worked in structures built to last only a few years.
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As Robotics Advances, Worries of Killer Robots Rise
From driverless cars to delivery drones, a new generation of robots is about to revolutionize the way people work, drive and shop.
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Coder's High
These days I write more than I code, but one of the things I miss about programming is the coder's high: those times when, for hours on end, I would lock my vision...
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When Is It Ok to Check a Smartphone at the Dinner Table?
Not long ago, I went to a nice restaurant with five friends. Good food. Better cocktails.
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Losing the Key
In this age of rapid transformation, the house key has been surprisingly resistant to change.
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Software That Sees Employees, Not Outsiders, As the Real Threat
A growing number of companies are under pressure to protect sensitive data—and not just from hackers lurking outside the digital walls.
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Forget Touchscreens, 3D Holographic Displays Are Coming
As it stands, the touchscreen experience is confined to a flat, two-dimensional world.
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Mastercard Expects Big Growth from 'big Data' Insights
MasterCard Inc, the world's second-largest debit and credit card company, sees business booming from selling data to retailers, banks, and governments on spending...
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Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones
To protect your financial and personal data, most mobiles come with PIN-based security, biometrics or number grids that require you to retrace a particular pattern...
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Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philosophy
When Steven P. Jobs led Apple, he created a core principle for the company's designers and engineers: stay fully focused on making great products.
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Dobby, Pikachu, and Kermit Are My Robots' Role Models
Humanoid robots aren't very charismatic yet.
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The Turing Test Is Not What You Think It Is
Whether or not you caught wind of the excited announcement that "Eugene Goostman," a computer program ("chatbot") devised by Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko,...
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Is Tony Fadell the Next Steve Jobs or ... the Next Larry Page?
In the late 1990s a young entrepreneur named Tony Fadell tried to persuade Stewart Alsop, a journalist who had recently become a venture capitalist, to invest in...
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Computer Program Aims to Teach Itself Everything About Anything
Computer scientists from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have created a fully automated computer program that...
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Tiny Startup Completely Reinvents How We se Touchscreens
If you want a reminder of how far technology has come in the last decade, check out the YouTube clip of Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone to a room full of...
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New Technology Aims to Rid World Cup of 'ghost Goals'
In 1966, British soccer legend Geoff Hurst booted a right-foot shot against Germany in the World Cup championship game.
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Vermeer's Paintings Might Be 350-Year-Old Color Photographs
I was sitting in the bathtub in 2008 when I thought of a simple way Johannes Vermeer (Girl with a Pearl Earring) might have painted his photorealistic pictures...
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Ambitious Plans For Brain Project Unveiled
A working group of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) presented a ten-year plan for the agency's portion of a major neuroscience initiative announced last...
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