Physics Division Graduate Student - Winter/Spring 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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Computer Science: The Learning Machines
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...
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Why Robots Will Not Be Smarter Than Humans By 2029
In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...
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The Infinite Lives of BitTorrent
Bram Cohen sits at a round desk, surrounded by a pod of open cubicles.
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One-Hit Wonders
For more than a year now, tens of millions of Americans have found time each day to devote themselves to an essential task: swiping at their phones and tablets...
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Virtual Reality Startups Look Back to the Future
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...
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Stanford Engineers Create a Software Tool to Reduce the Cost of Cloud Computing
We hear a lot about the future of computing in the cloud, but not much about the efficiency of the data centers that make the cloud possible.
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Language Barriers
The British scientist and polymath Stephen Wolfram has always had big ambitions.
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Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield
An electromagnetic mystery in northern Iraq changed the course of Jesse Potter's life.
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Social Physics
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...
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Europa Mission Gets Boost from President's New Nasa Budget
A dedicated mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, one of the best bets for life beyond Earth in our solar system, has inched a little closer to reality today.
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Cleanroom Inventor Honored Posthumously By National Inventors Hall of Fame
The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized...
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Remembering Mit, When There Were Just 50 Women in a Class of 1,000
When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000.
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The One Good Thing About Cyberattacks
The normally humdrum world of IT security is heating up, and not just because of comedian Stephen Colbert's controversial closing keynote at last week's RSA Conference...
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The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple
Shortly after Tim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right...
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This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made
The number of web pages on the internet is somewhere north of two billion, perhaps as many as double that.
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Dream Job: Digital Instrument Creator
Sometimes playing a guitar with a plectrum isn't enough.
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...
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Futurist Says We'll se Lasers to Beam Our Minds Into Space Someday Soon
The idea of erasing and implanting memories is a common feature of science fiction films such as Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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Xi Jinping Leads Internet Security Group
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...
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