Assistant Professor (Distributed Parallel Computing) - UMass Boston - Boston, MA
Boston, MA, United States
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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Maria Pocovi slides her laptop over to me with the webcam switched on.
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To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians
You're crossing the street wrong.
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Robots Will Never Replace Teachers But Can Boost Children's Education
Researchers say current technical limitations mean that robots' role will largely be confined to that of teaching assistants or tutors.
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The Most Terrifying Device Hacks from This Year's Def Con
Def Con, one of the most prominent annual hacking conferences in the world, was held in Las Vegas over the weekend.
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Why AI Researchers Shouldn't Turn Their Backs on the Military
More than 2,400 AI researchers recently signed a pledge promising not to build so-called autonomous weapons—systems that would decide on their own whom to kill....
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Quantum Computing Will Create Jobs. But Which Ones?
Chris Monroe's vision for quantum computers is simple: He wants people to use them.
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Startup JITX ses AI to Automate Complex Circuit Board Design
While anyone can learn how to design a circuit board, it takes a skilled engineer to design a circuit board that is both well optimized and unlikely to melt, explode...
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As Moore's Law Dies, the Chip Giants Seek Fresh Prey
After a five-year, $240 billion acquisition spree, there's a suspicion that the nature of deal-making in the semiconductor industry may be starting to change.
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How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can
A robotic hand? Four autonomous fingers and a thumb that can do anything your own flesh and blood can do? That is still the stuff of fantasy.
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HP Will Pay Hackers p to $10,000 to Break Their Printers
HP announced its first bug bounty program that specifically targets its printers, offering as much as $10,000 to hackers who can find vulnerabilities on its machines...
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The Hackers Teaching Old DNA Sequencers New Tricks
In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...
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Sorry, Nerds: Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars
Listen, I get it. You want to go to Mars. I want to go to Mars. (Sort of.) And the plan—it's good.
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DARPA Has an Ambitious $1.5 Billion Plan to Reinvent Electronics
The U.S. military agency is worried the United States could lose its edge in semiconductor chips.
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...
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JPL Interns: 'How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation'
In honor of National Intern Day on Thursday, July 26, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is celebrating the 700 students from around the...
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Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
Toronto's tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging...
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DARPA Picks Its First Set of Winners in Electronics Resurgence Initiative
Hundreds of engineers gathered at the Darpa Electronics Resurgence Initiative Summit in San Francisco yesterday to hear that dozens of them were getting millions...
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Big Tech is Throwing Money and Talent at Home Robots
Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively...
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NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial se of Satellite Data
While NASA's policy of free and open remote-sensing data has long benefited the scientific community, other government agencies and nonprofit organizations, it...
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