Materials for Future Computing REU - Carnegie Mellon - Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA, 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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Wearable Gadgets Transform How Companies Do Business
Big companies are putting wearables to work.
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Professor Clifford I. Nass, Expert on Human/computer Interactions, Dead at 55
Clifford I. Nass, a Stanford communication professor known for his research on the way people interact with technology, died Nov. 2 at Stanford Sierra Camp near...
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Genome Hacker ncovers Largest-Ever Family Tree
Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned 'genome hacker' has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled.
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Engineers Develop Real-Time, 3-D Teleconferencing Technology
Iowa State engineers have developed 3-D teleconferencing technology that's live, real-time, and streaming at 30 frames per second. They say the technology could...
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Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
The end could be near for cookies, the tiny pieces of code that marketers deploy on Web browsers to track people's online movements, serve targeted advertising,...
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Moocs Data Offers Promise of Perfect Teaching
When students learn online, every mouse click is tracked.
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Japan: A Haven For Humanoid Robots
Noriko Arai is not the first woman to spotlight the hazard that boys and their toys can present, and she won't be the last.
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Making Robots More Like S
On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting...
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Two-Hit Wonder
Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06.
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The Exciting $3 Trillion Promise of Open Data
The world is awash in data that's in the public domain but mostly goes to waste.
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Lavabit Founder Says He Fought Feds to Protect the Constitution
Like a story straight out of the universe of Franz Kafka, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison found himself before a judge in Washington, representing himself against...
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All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines
On the evening of February 12, 2009, a Continental Connection commuter flight made its way through blustery weather between Newark, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New...
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The Information-Gathering Paradox
Consumer trust is a vital currency for every big Internet company, which helps to explain why the giants of Silicon Valley have gone to great lengths in recent...
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Algorithm Could Eliminate nexplained Traffic Jams
If integrated into adaptive cruise-control systems, a new algorithm could mitigate the type of freeway backup that seems to occur for no reason.
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think
"It depends on what you mean by artificial intelligence."
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Haunted House Business Gets Boost As Techs p Thrill Ante
Ed Terebus was an 18-year-old high school student when he and his big brother Jim, a laid-off auto worker, decided to build their first haunted house 34 years ago...
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.k. Official rges .s. Government to Adopt a Digital Core
When he read about the technical failures plaguing HealthCare.gov, Mike Bracken said it felt like a real-life version of the movie Groundhog Day.
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Hiring in the Age of Big Data
Wasabi Waiter looks a lot like hundreds of other simple online games.
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Study: 80% of College Students Say They Text in Class
From the front of his classroom, University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor Barney McCoy noticed that students’ smart phones were making regular appearances...
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