Assistant Professor - Department of Civil and Environmental - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA, United States
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Intel Technology Chief Rattner to Step Down
One of the most familiar faces at Intel events, Justin Rattner, is giving up the post of chief technology officer at the giant chip maker.
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The Most Important Radio Station You've Never Heard of Marks 50 Years on the Air
Every night, while millions of Americans are fast asleep, clocks and wristwatches across the country wake up and lock on to a radio signal beamed from the base...
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Investors Buy Into Software-Defined Networks, Will Customers Follow?
As Superstorm Sandy bore down on the East coast last year, companies with data centers in its path needed another location fast. But moving computer servers is...
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The Seventy-Billion-Mile Telescope
When I was a teen-ager, I spent many nights gazing through a telescope at an amateur observatory in Cranford, New Jersey. Saturn, to the naked eye, is a shining...
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Siri's Creators Demonstrate an Assistant That Takes the Initiative
In a small, dark, room off a long hallway within a sprawling complex of buildings in Silicon Valley, an array of massive flat-panel displays and video cameras track ...
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Google Ventures Stresses Science of Deal, Not Art of the Deal
Here is how the venture capital game used to be played around here: A friend calls a friend who knows a guy.
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The Watchers
Looking down from 500 miles above Earth's surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move across the country along 3,140 miles of highway...
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The Future of Libraries: Short on Books, Long on Tech
This isn't your childhood librar
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Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data
Ram Sriharsha works in the engine room powering one of Silicon Valley's most influential companies. He’s an engineer at Yahoo.
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N.s.a. Leak Puts Focus on System Administrators
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about American surveillance, personifies a debate at the heart of technology...
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nderwater Drones Are Multiplying Fast
The next army of unmanned drones are scurrying beneath the ocean's surface.
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Medicine That Monitors You
They look like normal pills, oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin.
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The Most Amazing Map You'll See Today (no Matter What Day It Is)
There are many way to celebrate your 70th birthday.
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Drone Technology Used For Pilotless Fighter Aircraft
Under a huge semi-opaque dome and with heavy security in attendance, visitors to the Paris Air Show peer at a strange looking shape.
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Something Old, Something New
Andrew McLaughlin is, like, California-enthusiastic. Like, we're-totally-going-to-do-this-guys enthusiastic.
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Huge Holograms Offer Medics More Memorable Classes
A system which uses giant holograms to help medical students master their subject has been pioneered by two London-based junior doctors.
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Web's Reach Binds N.s.a. and Silicon Valley Leaders
When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter, or a similar Silicon Valley concern...
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What the Digital Brains of the Future Might Be Like
It is the rare entrepreneur who hits it truly big twice. Those who do—such as Ev Williams, Ted Turner, and Elon Musk—tend to stay within the original industry that...
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Qr Codes Aren't Dead Yet
My favorite mobile device isn't my phone, my iPad, or my car. It's my Canon digital SLR camera.
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