Assistant Professor - Florida State University - Tallahassee, FL
Tallahassee, FL, 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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Opening a Gateway For Girls to Enter the Computer Field
When Julia Geist was asked to draw a picture of a computer scientist last year, the 16-year-old sketched a businessman wearing glasses and a tie.
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No More Robocalls: New Tech Automatically Hangs p On Robots
Every month, the Federal Trade Commission receives 200,000 complaints about illegal robocalls, making it the most common problem reported to the FTC.
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Free Online Courses Mean College Will Never Be the Same
Depending on who you're listening to, Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs, are either the greatest boon to the spread of knowledge since Gutenberg cranked his...
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Top Brain Scientist Is 'philosopher at Heart'
d Boyden tilts his head downward, remaining still except for his eyes, which dart back and forth between blinks for a full 10 seconds. Then, as if coming up for...
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Teacher's Vision, but Done New York City's Way
At last year's State of the City speech, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the creation of a public high school called the Academy for Software Engineering.
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The Child, the Tablet, and the Developing Mind
I recently watched my sister perform an act of magic.
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Youth Flock to Mobile Messaging Apps, May Be Threat to Facebook
Create personal profiles. Build networks of friends. Share photos, videos and music.
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Welcome to the Mind-Bending World of Cloud-on-Cloud Computing
John Engates is the chief technology officer at Rackspace, and even he had trouble wrapping his mind around the way his company runs its most important of technologies...
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How to Make Your Mark in Professional Basketball at 5′ 9″
Growing up in India, Vasu Kulkarni was the self-proclaimed "biggest basketball fan in the world."
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The Story of My App
Recently, I created an app called Petting Zoo. It is an interactive app for iPhones and iPads, and creating it was a difficult but interesting process.
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An Ecuadorian Silicon Valley: Pipeline to the Future or Pipe Dream?
First, let's review the plan for Yachay, the name chosen for the Ecuadorian government's planned "City of Knowledge" already under construction at a rural location...
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Businesses Bet on Iron Man-Like Exoskeletons
In the 1960s, the Incredible Hulk rose to fame as Marvel Comics' green mutant antihero with superhuman strength and some serious anger issues.
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Police Dept. Sets Rules For Officers' se of Social Media
Looking to avoid troublesome social media postings by its officers, the New York Police Departmenthas issued strict guidelines and ordered its members to comb through...
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Qualcomm Wants to Be Famous
Qualcomm sells chips that go inside TVs, BMW dashboards, game consoles, and, most important, one-third of smartphones sold.
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The Messaging Apps Taking on Facebook, Phone Giants
On a recent Saturday, Johan Dijkland, a 23-year-old student in Emmen, Netherlands, opened a free messaging app called Line on his iPhone. Then he tapped on a virtual...
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Backpack Mapping System Captures Intelligence in Tough-to-Get-to Places
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a portable device — carried in a backpack — that can be used to automatically create maps in...
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Apps: The New Corporate Cost-Cutting Tool
The biggest mall in town stopped staffing its customer-service desk in January. But perched on that same desk recently was a plastic cutout of a hand holding a...
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At 17, App Builder Rockets to Riches From Yahoo Deal
Seventeen-year-old Nick D'Aloisio is taking some time off from school in London, where he lives with his parents. He will let mom and dad help manage his money.
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States Answer Help Wanted Ad to Be Drone Test Site
It's the land where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier, where the space shuttle fleet rolled off the assembly line and where the first private manned rocketship...
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Tearing Down the Technological 'Tower of Babel' at the Borders
A joint experiment between the United States and Canada proved the effectiveness of interoperable communications systems during a disaster.
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