DS Lecturer - Stanford University - Stanford, CA
Stanford, 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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Oculus Rift: Deep Inside the Immersive, Disorienting Virtual Reality Gaming Experience
We just met with the team behind the Oculus Rift, which started out as a DIY project that quickly morphed into into a Kickstarter success story.
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Detroit: After Decades of rban Blight, Technology Boom Gives Motor City Hope
The raucous scene inside the M@ dison building is not one usually associated with inner-city Detroit.
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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...
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Work Begins on Hardware to Aid Edsac Replica Recreation
Edsac—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator—ran its first program in 1949 and was created to help scientists at Cambridge University.
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Ben Horowitz on the Impact of Software Everywhere
Ben Horowitz may have the skeleton key to the decimation—sorry, transformation—of our economic and political lives.
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Make Guns Smart
Voices across the political spectrum are debating how to prevent mass shootings such as the one in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Can This Man Save Pinball?
The last guys who tried to save pinball bet all their quarters on a bunch of 3D aliens.
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The Rise of the Corporate Sustainability Officer
Americans are discarding a growing pile of electronics.
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Tiny Tools Help Advance Medical Discoveries
To understand the progression of complex diseases such as cancer, scientists have had to tease out the interactions between cells at progressively finer scales—from...
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Tony Fadell: From Iphones to Sexing p Thermostats
After you left Apple, you developed a "smart" thermostat. Was that always your plan?
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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs
It's hard to believe you'd have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.
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5 Nerds to Watch in 2013
When Steve Jobs died, there was a lot of talk about who would be the next Steve Jobs. But the truth is, rarely can one person reshape the future. And breakthroughs...
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Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export
To the delight of American satellite makers, communications satellites—which orbit Earth to relay phone calls, link ships to shore and broadcast television programs—will...
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Researchers Demonstrate Record-Setting P-Type Transistor
A new design for a P-type transistor, a basic component of all computer chips, boasts a 'carrier mobility' that is twice as fast as previous experimental transistors...
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Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.
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Gartner Says Worldwide It Spending Forecast to Reach $3.7 Trillion in 2013
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.7 trillion in 2013, a 4.2 percent increase from 2012 spending of $3.6 trillion, according to the latest forecast...
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Marking the Birth of the Modern-Day Internet
A long time ago, my colleagues and I became part of a great adventure, teamed with a small band of scientists and technologists in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China
One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back...
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Ftc Offers $50,000 Reward to Help Stop Robocalls
Unwanted telemarketing calls, trademarked for interrupting dinners across the nation, have become such a nuisance over the years that the Federal Trade Commission...
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Color-Sensing Toasters? A Student Reimagines the Home
At 21, Basheer Tome has a rather well-defined notion of what he thinks the world needs: clever, useful, beautiful objects that elevate our homes well and truly...
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