Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, CEAS - Stony Brook University - Stony Brook, NY
Stony Brook, NY, 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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Why Big Data Has Some Big Problems When It Comes to Public Policy
For all the talk about using big data and data science to solve the world’s problems—and even all the talk about big data as one of the world’s problems—it seems...
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When Google Closes the Nest Deal, Privacy Issues For the Internet of Things Will Hit the Big Time
Google rocked the smart home market Monday with its intention to purchase connected home thermostat maker Nest for $3.2 billion, which will force a much-needed...
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Pgp Inventor and Silent Circle Co-Founder Phil Zimmermann on the Surveillance Society
Phil Zimmermann might be a technologist, but he tends to get philosophical when it comes to the issues of privacy and security and how they intersect with our society...
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Where Do You Test a Tool Bound For Mars? Greenland
Every morning this week, Justin Spring and Sean Yoon got up and drove down a bumpy dirt road. They piled their packs onto their backs and hiked 45 minutes up a...
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Meet the Designer Behind Some of the Web’s Newest Killer Fonts
Thanks to newer browsers and greater bandwidth, there's been an explosion of new Web fonts—tens of thousands of them over the last decade.
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Why Microsoft's Reorganization Closes the Books on an Era of Computing
Nothing ever stays the same. On more than one occasion, it has taken Microsoft, one of the most important engines powering the rise of the technology industry,...
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Why Google Is the Big Data Company That Matters Most
Every now and then, someone asks "Who’ll be the Google of big data?"
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The Nsa Could Collect Far More Than Your Phone Records from Mobile Operators
The revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting our phone records has generated considerable outrage, but phone call metadata is just the beginning...
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How You and I Could Become Nodes in the Internet of Things
Ever wonder what the network infrastructure of the future will be? Try looking in the mirror.
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How Technology Is Slowly Developing Its Sense of Smell
Last week I attended what was, I think it is fair to say, the oddest conference I have been to yet. It was the first world congress of the Digital Olfaction Society...
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Qualcomm's Decidedly Different Plan to Connect Your Devices to the Internet of Things
Qualcomm, the chip company that made its fortune in mobile connectivity had big visions beyond its CDMA and cellular radio heritage.
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Yep, Skype Is Still Taking Business Away from the Telcos
The popularity of Skype and other IP-based international calling options has continued to take market share away from the international minutes, according to research...
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Applying Search Engine Techniques to Physics Data, Yandex Partners p with Cern
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is perhaps best-known for two things: (probably) locating the elusive Higgs Boson, and being the birthplace...
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Meet the Guys Behind the Iphone's Best Calendar App
It's not a surprise when a company with copious resources like Google builds a better iPhone search or mail app. But it’s far more interesting when small development...
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How Martin Odersky Rewrote the Rules of Coding For a Mobile World
Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...
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Why Better Traffic Data Means More Than Just a Faster Commute
You might never have heard of Inrix, but there's a good chance it’s already helped you out—or vice versa.
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5 Most Surprising Things Heard at Harvard's Cyberposium
There was the usual talk about the excitement of the startup universe and the thrill of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School's 18th annual Cyberposium on...
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5 Cool Things at MIT Media Lab
You probably expect all the latest and greatest high-tech gear to be out in force at the MIT Media Lab innovation complex. And you’d be right. Holograms? Check....
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Why Trifacta Is Teaching Humans and Data to Work Together
Ask a group of data scientists the toughest part of their job, and many will probably tell you–it's not the math but the work required to turn raw data into something...
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Making Money on Mobile: The Youtube Perspective
It's no secret that more and more content is being consumed on mobile devices. While this has been a source of stress for some web publishers like Facebook, YouTube...
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