Faculty Mini Sabbatical Program - Summer 2025 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, 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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SynTouch Is Giving Robots the Ability to Feel Textures Like Humans Do
There's just nothing like holding a new product in your hands.
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Grandfather of Vr: The Virtual Can Show the Beauty of the Real
Thomas Furness is known as the pioneer who stood at the inception of what we know today as virtual reality.
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Hands-On With Microsoft's Hololens, One Year Later
One year after showing off HoloLens, Microsoft's augmented reality rig remains very much a work in progress.
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Spinoff 2016 Highlights Space Technologies Used in Daily Life on Earth
NASA technology is all around us, turning trash into oil, saving women from a deadly complication of childbirth, and putting the bubbles in beer.
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In Virtual Reality, Exercise Bike Becomes a Race Car
A new stationary bike from Boston startup VirZoom requires an unusual accessory while you’re pedaling: a virtual-reality headset, so you can turn your workout into...
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Change the Way We Watch Sports
Computers have already been trained how to write up quick summaries of sporting events after studying the box score, putting the jobs of sports journalists at risk...
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Twists and Turns in Path from Lab to Startup to Major Acquisition
How Berkeley Lab battery spinoff Seeo got acquired by a major multinational company.
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Center Is Founded By Silicon Valley Investors
A group of prominent Silicon Valley investors and technology companies said on Friday that they would establish an artificial-intelligence research center to develop...
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Scott Aaronson on Google's New Quantum-Computing Paper
Google researchers released a paper last week suggesting that the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena. Scott Aaronson of MIT helps make sense of the new...
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Singaporean Students Create Device to Help Fight Parkinson's Symptoms
One dangerous aspect of Parkinson's Disease is the impeded ability to walk, which causes people to fall and injure themselves.
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Silicon Valley Is in a War Over Artificial Intelligence and Facebook Just Made Its Boldest Move Yet
In the war over deep learning that's currently taking place in Silicon Valley, Facebook just dropped a bomb.
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To Get More Oomph From an Electron Gun, Tip It with Diamondoids
Scientists have increased the flow from electron guns 13,000-fold by applying a single layer of diamondoids — tiny, perfect diamond cages — to the's sharp gold...
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The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.
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Columbia Engineers Build Biologically Powered Chip
Columbia Engineering researchers have harnessed the molecular machinery of living systems to power an integrated circuit, opening the door to creating artificial...
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Shape Shifters: Demonstrating Tunable Phase Shifting
Scientists have devised a new approach that balances attractions between particles and promises to become a useful tool to create designer materials that can repair...
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New Law Paves the Way for Asteroid Mining—But Will It Work?
Mining asteroids may sound like a concept ripped from science fiction, but a new law is aiming to make it a reality.
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New Stretchable, Wearable Sensor Made with Chewing Gum
Body sensors could soon become even more versatile — with the help of chewing gum. Scientists report a sensing device made of gum and carbon nanotubes that can...
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Storing Electricity in Paper
Researchers at Linköping University's Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Sweden, have developed power paper — a new material with an outstanding ability to store...
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Artificial Intelligence Ethics a New Focus at Cambridge niversity
A new center to study the implications of artificial intelligence and try to influence its ethical development has been established at the U.K.'s Cambridge University...
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Apple Open Sources Its Swift Programming Language
In a move that represents a significant shift for Apple—and for the tech industry as a whole—the world's most valuable company has open sourced its Swift programming...
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