Assistant Professor of Computer Science (CS) - University of Rhode Island - Kingston, RI
Kingston, RI, United States
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The Man With the Most Valuable Work Experience in the World
Chris Urmson led Google's self-driving car team from its early days all the way until the company shed its Google skin and emerged under the Alphabet umbrella as...
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8 Overly Confident, Mostly Pessimistic Predictions About Tech in 2018
It was a very strange year for technology companies. They have become a "bipartisan whipping boy," a new sexist institution, responsible for the muddying of the...
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Europe's Message to Silicon Valley: Tech Is Not Special
What is Uber? The company's standard answer is that it is a technology company—an app that matches people who want to get somewhere to people who will take them...
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How 'self-Driving' Trucks Connected the Australian Outback
The trucks that roam the highways of the Australian outback are a lot bigger than the average 18-wheeler.
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The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...
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Does Facebook Even Know How to Control Facebook?
Later today, executives from Facebook, Google, and Twitter will go before the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify about the ways that Russian operatives used...
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Facebook's New 'ai Camera' Team Wants to Add a Layer to the World
Take a video of a birthday cake's candles sparkling in an Instagram story, then tap the sticker button. Near the top of the list you'll see a slice of birthday...
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You Are Already Living Inside a Computer
Suddenly, everything is a computer. Phones, of course, and televisions. Also toasters and door locks, baby monitors and juicers, doorbells and gas grills. Even ...
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Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.
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Snopes Faces an gly Legal Battle
On Monday, the editorial staff of Snopes.com wrote a short plea for help.
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All the Promises Automakers Have Made About the Future of Cars
Yet another announcement came yesterday: Volvo, the Swedish slash Chinese car company, announced that it will only offer electric or hybrid vehicles by 2019.
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When AI Can Transcribe Everything
What is the best way to describe Rupert Murdoch having a foam pie thrown at his face?
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Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet
In 1991, most Americans had not yet heard of the internet.
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A Brief History of Seti@home
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...
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The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics
In October, when malware called Mirai took over poorly secured webcams and DVRs, and used them to disrupt internet access across the United States, I wondered who...
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Car Wars
The stakes are impossibly high. Self-driving cars are arguably the great technological promise of the 21st century.
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The 'curious' Robots Searching For the Ocean's Secrets
People have been exploring the Earth since ancient times—traversing deserts, climbing mountains, and trekking through forests. But there is one ecological realm...
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