TT & NTT Faculty - Computer & Information Sciences - University of Massachusetts Amherst - Amherst, MA
Amherst, MA, 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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Putin vs. the Internet: The Laws That Matter
A new law in force in Russia from Sept. 1 is intended to force foreign Internet firms to maintain local servers to handle data on Russian citizens.
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James L. Flanagan, Who Helped Make Computers Talk, Dies at 89
James L. Flanagan, whom we can thank for articulate digital assistants like Siri and intelligible subway loudspeakers and blame for the disembodied voices that...
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On the Farm: Startups Put Data in Farmers' Hands
Farmers and entrepreneurs are starting to compete with agribusiness giants over the newest commodity being harvested on U.S. farms—one measured in bytes, not bushels...
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European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google
In private sessions this summer, giant publishers and media companies from Germany, France and elsewhere have met with European officials about proposals to regulate...
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Dartmouth Football's Brilliant Dummies
Wearing a green Dartmouth College jersey, the newest player on the school's football team readies for action during a preseason practice.
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The Government Needs to Work with Silicon Valley to Create Our Military Future
In 1931, the city fathers of Sunnyvale, California, came up with a unique plan to rescue their town from the doldrums of the Great Depression.
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Connecting Your Car to Your Smartphone Can Make Auto Data Work For You
If your car could talk, you might be surprised by how much it has to say.
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Why Neuroscience Needs Hackers
There was a time when neuroscientists could only dream of having such a problem.
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Tech Companies Are Hiring More Liberal-Arts Majors Than You Think
Silicon Valley has a reputation for being filled with egghead coders who popped out of college as brilliant engineers (or who never finished college in the first...
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Social Is Dead: What 146 Startup Pitches Showed Me about the Next Wave of Tech Companies
Investing in startups is like bird-watching, or at least that's the quote from legendary venture capitalist Mike Moritz.
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The pside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley
In October 2008, in the early days of the last economic collapse, Sequoia Capital invited founders of technology companies to a frank meeting outlining the new...
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Why Gogo's Infuriatingly Expensive, Slow Internet Still Owns the Skies
In the fall of 2008, Louis C.K. was a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and delivered a soon-to-be-viral rant called "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy...
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Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations, Study Suggests
Articles with shorter titles tend to get cited more often than those with longer headers, according to a new study that examined 140,000 papers published between...
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Argonne Pushing Boundaries of Computing in Engine Simulations
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory will be testing the limits of computing horsepower this year with a new simulation project that will harness 60 million...
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What Is Elegance in Science?
In 1957, a few years after Francis Crick co-discovered the DNA double helix and a few years before he co-won a Nobel Prize for doing so, he published a paper on...
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Robokiller Wins Ftc Prize By Annihilating Robocalls
A new technology called "RoboKiller" has won a $25,000 grand prize from the Federal Trade Commission in the agency's "Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back" contest...
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John Henry Holland, Who Computerized Evolution, Dies at 86
John Henry Holland, a computer scientist whose seminal work on genetic algorithms, or computer codes that mimic sexually reproducing organisms, proved crucial in...
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Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency
Silicon Valley icon Lawrence Lessig knows his moonshot bid for the White House hinges on the innovation and support of the tech industry.
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Nae Launches Website to Support Prek-12 Engineering Education Efforts
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has launched a new website, LinkEngineering, intended to help PreK-12 educators in the United States implement engineering...
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Programming Camp Sparks Students' Scientific Curiosity
Argonne National Laboratory hosted a summer coding camp that showed 42 Chicago-area high school students what it's like to be a STEM professional.
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