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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Few people have heard of Michele Tobias's research field—and even fewer study it.
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When he started at the CIA, Sean Roche recalls how little solid data the U.S. spy agency had on what was going on inside the Kremlin.
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Virtual Reality: The Hype, the Problems and the Promise
I'm sitting in the dark. It's pitch black, apart from a circular spot of light on the wall in front of me.
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Inside Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter's Latest Production
At Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) in La Jolla, California, more than two dozen machines work around the clock, sequencing one human genome every 15 minutes at a cost...
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Facebook's Really Big Plans For Virtual Reality
The office building on Facebook Way is in the unfinished style that honors materials like plywood, concrete, and steel.
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Now You Too Can Buy Cloud-Based Deep Learning
Facebook's deep-learning artificial intelligence systems have learned to recognize your friends in your photos, and Google's AI has learned to anticipate what you’ll...
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The 2016 Top Programming Languages
IEEE Spectrum has released its third interactive ranking of the most popular programming languages.
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Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?
It's been a lousy couple of years for researchers who study the effects of computerized brain training.
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It's the Data, Stupid: Why Database Admins Are More Important Than Ever
For those of us who have been in the information technology realm for too long, the title "database administrator" conjures up very specific images.
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How to Operate Your Smart Watch with the Same Hand That Wears It
Smart watches aren't exactly models of efficiency—they require one hand to operate while the other wrist wears it. A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers...
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They Promised S Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.
Project Foghorn is one of those straight-from-science-fiction concepts we've come to expect from Alphabet, the sprawling conglomerate formerly known as Google.
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The Mapping Expert Behind Pokémon Go
Over the past couple of weeks, the smartphone game Pokémon Go has more than doubled Nintendo’s share price and reintroduced the Pokémon Co.’s digital monsters to...
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Companies Are Flooding Earth's Orbit with Satellites, but No One's Directing Traffic
Companies around the globe are launching an increasing number of satellites, crowding Earth's orbit in an effort to satisfy the ravenous on-demand desire for more...
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On
Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)...
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China Seeks Top-10 Automation Ranking By 2020: Robot Industry Group
China is aiming for a top-10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, the International Federation of Robotics...
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America Wants to Believe China Can't Innovate. Tech Tells a Different Story.
Silicon Valley may be powered by organic kale, but when Chinese tech gurus gather at 3W, a coffee shop-slash-incubator in the Chinese capital, they want sunflower...
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Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...
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The nsung Heroes of Crispr
When Blake Wiedenheft started studying microbes, his work was both remote and obscure.
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Google, Trying to Endear Itself to Europe, Spreads Cash Around
A yearlong digital training course for Irish high school teachers started in 2014.
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Nsa Boss Says .s. Cyber Troops Are Nearly Ready
The director of the National Security Agency says his first few dedicated cyber troops will be operational by early fall but the nation can't wait for the full...
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