Assistant Professor - Department of Civil and Environmental - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, 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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Companies Worry About Sec's Advice to Disclose Cyberthreats
Deluged by cyberattacks they've mostly hidden from the public, companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are being prodded by federal regulators to finally fess...
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How .s. Lost Out on Iphone Work
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
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Road Safety Agency Is rged to Add Expertise in Electronics Systems
A branch of the National Academy of Sciences reported Wednesday that federal safety regulators lack the expertise to monitor vehicles with increasingly sophisticated...
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In Tech, Starting p By Failing
Every entrepreneur hopes to start the next big thing. But sometimes the first try doesn’t go as planned.
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Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo and a Cautionary Tale Behind
It had to be hard for Jerry Yang to walk away from Yahoo on Tuesday. You know it had to be hard or he would have walked away years ago—which is exactly what many...
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Twitter sage at Work Jumped 700% Last Year, Study Says
Working hard or hardly working? Managers may find themselves asking that question after examining the results of a study that found massive increases in employees'...
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What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell S About the Future of Education
Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the past few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup Codecademy)...
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Avoiding Innovation's Terrible Toll
The corporation isn't a sturdy species. In fact, only a tiny fraction reach the age of 40, according to study of more than six million firms by management professors...
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Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools
Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq.
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Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in .s. Drone Operations
After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian...
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How Cornell Beat Stanford (And Everybody Else) for NYC Tech Campus
New York-based Next Jump is a data-driven rewards and offers company working at the juncture of three quintessentially New York City businesses: advertising, publishing...
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In Russia, the Lost Generation of Science
For the past decade, Russia has been pouring money into scientific research, trying to make up for the collapse of the 1990s, but innovation is losing out to...
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Meet Sopa Author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's Favorite Republican
Rep. Lamar Smith, whose congressional district in Texas encompasses the cropland and grazing land stretching between Austin and San Antonio, might seem like an...
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Flight of the Warbots
How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.
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Silicon Fen Shows Off Its Wares at Cambridge Showcase
The iPad hovers over the poster showing a picture of a fire. Suddenly the static image bursts into flames with a crackle.
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Dna: The Next Big Hacking Frontier
Imagine computer-designed viruses that cure disease, new bacteria capable of synthesizing an unlimited fuel supply, new organisms that wipe out entire populations...
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Pentagon Fast-Tracks Hacker Research
The Pentagon has long had a love-hate relationship with computer hackers: On the outside, they can infiltrate vulnerable defense networks. On the inside, they...
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With a Leaner Model, Start-ps Reach Further Afield
Lee Redden, 26, a Ph.D. student in engineering at Stanford, recently decided to shelve his education and help found a start-up company.
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Gchq Aims to Recruit Computer Hackers with Code-Cracking Web Site
Government intelligence service targets "self-taught" hackers with cryptic Web site that features no obvious branding.
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