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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Nobel Prize in Physics Highlights Quantum Systems
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012 to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental...
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What Number Is Halfway Between 1 and 9? Is It 5 — or 3?
A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system.
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The Extremely Personal Computer: The Digital Future of Mental Health
It's 2018, and you're not feeling your best.
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Researchers Demonstrate 'giant' Forces in Super-Strong Nanomaterials
In a study that could lead to advances in the fields of optical computing and nanomaterials, researchers at Missouri University S&T report that a new class of nanoscale...
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Researcher Developing New Computing Approach to Materials Science
Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory is using data mining, information theory, and statistical learning concepts to develop a new approach...
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Painful Birth For Europe's New One-Stop Patent
That Europe needs a common patent is patently obvious to Michael Setton, who runs a tiny technology firm in France making wireless sensors that track environmental...
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Researchers Engineer Light-Activated Skeletal Muscle
Scientists have genetically engineered muscle cells that flex in response to light, which could be used to build highly articulated robots or to test drugs for...
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From Heroes to Humans: The Totally Regular People Who Landed a Robot on Mars
Last week, a group of the scientists and engineers orchestrating NASA's Curiosity mission got together to do an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit.
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Robot Master
When you visit Manuela Veloso at Carnegie Mellon University, you're not guided to her office by a security officer or even issued instructions by a secretary at...
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Commercial Blue-Sky Research Lives on at Ibm's Watson Center
In the decades following World War II, the U.S. emerged as the leading center of scientific research through the efforts of three types of institutions: its research...
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Curiosity's Martian Playground Is Technically Located in Pasadena
Seventeen miles from downtown L.A., on the campus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, there's a small stretch of earth covered in beach sand, decomposed...
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Micro-Swimmer Robots Could Deliver Cargo & Drugs
Researchers have used complex computational models to design micro-robots that could overcome the challenges of swimming at the micron scale. The autonomous robots...
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In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold
If Vladimir Putin glances out the Kremlin window at just the right moment, he has a chance of glimpsing the world's best computer programmer in Google's Moscow...
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Ten-Year-Old Problem in Theoretical Computer Science Falls
Computer scientists have finally answered the question of whether whether shared entanglement between the provers in multiprover interactive proof systems weaken...
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Printed Photonic Crystal Mirrors Shrink On-Chip Lasers
Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections...
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Radiation Damage Bigger Problem in Microelectronics Than Previously Thought
The amount of damage that radiation causes in electronic materials may be at least 10 times greater than previously thought, according to findings based on a new...
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A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley
Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.
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Doing Apps and Start-ps While Still in High School
Like many young entrepreneurs here in Silicon Valley, Matthew Slipper knows that success does not come easy.
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Researcher Solves N-Representability Problem
A newly published article in Physical Review Letters eliminates one of the top unsolved theoretical problems in chemical physics as ranked by the National Research...
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Clothing the Body Electric
Researchers at the University of South Carolina have converted the fabric in a cotton T-shirt into a material that can store electricity. Their work could pave...
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