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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Cyber Warrior Shortage Hits Anti-Hacker Fightback
For the governments and corporations facing increasing computer attacks, the biggest challenge is finding the right cyber warriors to fight back.
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Bit By Bit, Virtual Reality Heads For the Holodeck
While sitting in a stuffy Hollywood hotel conference room recently, I plotted my next move outside a snow-covered, ancient castle.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics Is Really a Nobel Prize in Math
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs for the prediction of the Higgs boson, which was experimentally confirmed...
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Accelerometer Ids Smartphones in Seconds
One afternoon late last month, security researcher Hristo Bojinov placed his Galaxy Nexus phone face up on the table in a cramped Palo Alto conference room. Then...
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Quantum Conductors Benefit from Growth on Smooth Foundations
Researchers in the United States and China have teamed up to develop a speedway for future devices, an exotic type of electrical conductor called a topological...
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3D Printing a Masterwork For Your Living Room
You may never be able to get to Italy to see Michelangelo's David—but advances in 3D printing technology are making it possible for you to create an almost perfect...
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Playing War: How the Military ses Video Games
According to popular discourse, video games are either the divine instrument of education’s future or the software of Satan himself, provoking young men to carry...
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What Our 3d-Printed Future Looks Like
On-demand organs, Terminator-style arms, and aviation nostalgia—the best of 3D printing is on show in 3D: Printing the Future at London's Science Museum.
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15 Companies that Led and Still Lead Tech Innovation
The history of the tech industry is littered with the dead—companies that rode a wave of innovation and wiped out hard.
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Virtual Reality Gaming Is Nearly Here; We Just Need the Right Controller
Video games have long promised to offer their players "immersive experiences," but full-blown virtual reality—the holodeck or the matrix—was still a fantasy.
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Here's Why Cops Should Be Required to Wear a Lapel Camera While on Duty
Police officers in Rialto, Calif., carry cameras to record their every action while on duty.
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All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders, and firefighter...
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2013 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Computer Modeling of Chemical Reactions
What is actually happening at the atomic scale when two elements react?
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Amd—yes, Amd—paves Way to Computer Server of the Future
Inside Mozilla’s new data center in Santa Clara, California—about an hour south of San Francisco—the machine was sitting against the wall, all by itself.
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Scientists Create First Computer-Designed Superconductor
Binghamton University scientist Aleksey Kolmogorov and his international colleagues report this week on the successful synthesis of the first superconductor designed...
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Want to Evade Nsa Spying? Don't Connect to the Internet
Since I started working with Snowden’s documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA.
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In Digital Era, What Does 'watching Tv' Even Mean?
We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.
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The Mathematical Shape of Things to Come
Simon DeDeo, a research fellow in applied mathematics and complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute, had a problem.
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Researchers Split Over NSA Hacking
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has upset a great many people this year.
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