Assistant Professor (Distributed Parallel Computing) - UMass Boston - Boston, MA
Boston, MA, United States
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A team of college students is getting attention from internet companies and Congress after developing a browser extension that alerts users to fake and biased news...
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Study of Water Viscosity Promises New Wave of Electronic Devices
A novel approach to studying the viscosity of water has revealed new insights about the behavior of water molecules and may open pathways for liquid-based electronics...
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56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's It Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start
Once a top employment generator, India's $160 billion IT industry laid off more than 56,000 employees this year. Meanwhile, hiring plummeted, with entry-level openings...
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The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming for his job...
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What Amazon's Alexa Economy Pays the People Building Its Skills
On a lark, Joel Wilson started developing skills for Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant, this past January.
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Blockchain Pumping New Life Into Old-School Companies Like IBM
Blockchain is getting bigger at Big Blue.
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Tiny Structures Help Prevent Short Circuits in Plasma Devices
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have found a way to prevent plasma from causing short circuits in machines such...
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While Earthlings Take a Break, the Mars Rover Keeps Working
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73 Percent of Developers Who Don't se AI Plan to Learn How in 2018
Although only 17 percent of software developers worked with artificial intelligence or machine learning this year, 73 percent of those who did not say they are...
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The Best Toys That Teach Kids How to Code
If you're looking for the perfect gift for children eager to learn the basics of coding, or want to give a little one a heads up when they get to logic and problem...
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New Depth Sensors Could Be Sensitive Enough For Self-Driving Cars
The Camera Culture group at MIT's Media Lab have developed a computational method that improves the resolution of time-of-flight depth sensors 1,000-fold.
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How Facebook's Political nit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda
Under fire for Facebook Inc.'s role as a platform for political propaganda, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has punched back, saying his mission is above partisanship...
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Europe's Message to Silicon Valley: Tech Is Not Special
What is Uber? The company's standard answer is that it is a technology company—an app that matches people who want to get somewhere to people who will take them...
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Satya Nadella on Ai, Sexual Harassment, and Microsoft's Soul
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is putting his own stamp on the tech giant once led by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
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Nasa Invests in Concept Development For Missions to Comet, Saturn Moon Titan
NASA has selected two finalist concepts for a robotic mission planned to launch in the mid-2020s: a comet sample return mission and a drone-like rotorcraft that...
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Software Developers Step Into the World of Teaching
Students at the Cleveland School of Science and Medicine are getting a crash course on computer programming. The two-people leading the class aren't teachers but...
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A 'stem' Parent Boosts Girls' Participation in Science Degrees
Having one parent or guardian work in a STEM field makes it more likely for girls to perform better in math and to enroll in a "hard sciences" college degree program such...
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China's Selfie Obsession
HoneyCC likes to say that she scarcely remembers the last time someone called her by her given name, Lin Chuchu.
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Why Doesn't the N.f.l. se Tracking Technology For First-Down Calls?
It was a scene almost designed to show the folly of the N.F.L.'s first-down measurement system.
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Why Silicon Valley Is Hiring Ex-Federal Agents
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