Assistant Professor (TT) - Electrical and Computer Engineering - Heterogenous Computing - UMass 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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To Fix Voting Machines, Hackers Tear Them Apart
The toughest thing to convey to newcomers at the DefCon Voting Village in Las Vegas this weekend? Just how far they could go with hacking voting machines set up...
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From Computation to the Ocean, a Scientist Finds His Fit
"Not a day goes by that I'm not writing computer code to analyze data."
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The .s. Army Is Teaching Kids How to Hack at Def Con
The U.S. Army is teaching children "white hat," or ethical, hacking skills.
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Flush Times For Hackers in Booming Cyber Security Job Market
The surge in far-flung and destructive cyber attacks is not good for national security, but for an increasing number of hackers and researchers, it is great for...
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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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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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This Image Is Why Self-Driving Cars Come Loaded with Many Types of Sensors
Autonomous cars often proudly claim to be fitted with a long list of sensors—cameras, ultrasound, radar, lidar, you name it. But if you've ever wondered why so...
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Level p: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...
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Why Am I Getting So Many Robocalls?
People with landline home phones have long suffered unwanted marketing calls. Now these spam calls have made their way to our mobile phones in a big way.
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Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...
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Watson Won Jeopardy, But Is It Smart Enough to Spin Big Blue's AI Into Green?
In retrospect, there was much more at stake than a mere $1 million when IBM's Watson computer faced off against two Jeopardy! champions back in 2011.
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Machines Poised to Take Over 30% of Work at Banks, Mckinsey Says
New technologies are poised to sweep through investment banks, relieving many rank-and-file employees of roughly a third of their current workload, according to...
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Robot Physical Therapist Helps People Walk Again After a Stroke
A robotic harness controlled by a neural network is helping people regain their mobility after certain neurological injuries.
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Silicon Valley Mostly Quiet in Internet Surveillance Debate in Congress
Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google, Apple Inc and other major technology firms are largely absent from a debate over the renewal of a broad U.S. internet surveillance...
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.s. Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream
Eugene Kaspersky, the CEO of the Russian cybersecurity software firm that bears his name, had a big American dream.
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Spreading Fake News Becomes Standard Practice For Governments Across the World
Campaigns to manipulate public opinion through false or misleading social media postings have become standard political practice across much of the world, with...
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These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs
Just before Stefan Seltz-Axmacher offers a job to an engineer at Starsky Robotics Inc., a driverless trucking startup in San Francisco, he gives them the talk. ...
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Why Haven't Reporters Mass-Adopted Secure Tools For Communicating With Sources?
In the months since Donald Trump took office, Washington has been leaking like a sieve.
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Why Robots Won't Steal All Our Jobs
Don't worry. The robots won't destroy all our jobs. History suggests just the opposite—that new technologies inspire new jobs.
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Smart Glove Translates American Sign Language Alphabet Into Text
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smart glove that wirelessly translates the American Sign Language alphabet into text and controls...
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