Assistant Professor (Distributed Parallel Computing) - UMass Boston - Boston, MA
Boston, 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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Could the 'alzheimer's Gene' Finally Become a Drug Target?
Among hundreds of genes that might nudge your risk of Alzheimer's up or down, Apolipoprotein E (APOE) has the strongest effect.
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The Female Code-Breakers Who Were Left Out of History Books
Picture this. In 1917, the United States is just entering World War One. But to begin with, its military is small and its capacity for intelligence gathering is...
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China's AI Awakening
On a tropical island that marks the southern tip of China, a computer program called Lengpudashi is playing one-on-one poker against a dozen people at once, and...
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Nvidia Sets Sights on the Driverless Revolution with Drive Px Pegasus
On Tuesday, Nvidia announced a new version of its automotive-grade compute platforms, Drive PX Pegasus.
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Google, Facebook and Twitter scramble to Hold Washington at Bay
Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company's size has made it too attractive as a target for government...
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How Computers Turned Gerrymandering Into a Science
About as many Democrats live in Wisconsin as Republicans do.
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The Nsa Officially Has a Rogue Contractor Problem
The NSA is one of the world's most notoriously secretive and powerful government agencies, guarding its powerful hacking tools and massive caches of collected data...
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New Cars Increasingly Crammed with Distracting Technology
The infotainment technology that automakers are cramming into the dashboard of new vehicles is making drivers take their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel...
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'mind-Boggling' Math Could Make Blockchain Work For Wall Street
A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private...
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This 'ghost Gun' Machine Now Makes ntraceable Metal Handguns
For the past five years, Cody Wilson has applied every possible advance in digital manufacturing technology to the mission of undermining government attempts at...
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Colleges Are Marketing Drone Pilot Courses, but the Career Opportunities Are Murky
Hot-air balloon pilot Richard Varney typically spends his weekends transporting tourists around central Massachusetts in a huge, multicolored balloon. But on a...
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Scientists in Mexico Scramble to Deploy Seismic Sensors
Late one night in September, Victor Cruz, a geophysicist at Mexico's National Autonomous University, submitted an article to a scientific journal describing progress...
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The Iphone Didn't Emerge from Nothing. Here's What Came Before It
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs stood on the MacWorld stage in his jeans and a black turtleneck.
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False News of the Vegas Attack Spread on Google, Facebook
False news that erroneously named a suspect in the deadly Las Vegas mass shooting on Sunday spread on Google and Facebook before the services removed the posts...
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Gravitational Wave Detection Wins Physics Nobel
Three physicists who had leading roles in the first direct detection of gravitational waves have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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How Experts Comb Satellite Images For Clues on North Korea's Nuclear Tests
Satellite images of North Korean missile testing sites or nuclear reactor facilities can sometimes reveal smears of yellow or befuddling brown objects at certain...
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Trump Is Making Canada Great Again
It's no secret that the United States has long dominated cutting-edge technologies, from personal computers and biotech to smartphones and social media.
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Understanding Ethereum, Bitcoin's Virtual Cousin
Bitcoin has many cousins and competitors. None have grown more popular than Ethereum, a global computer network with its own virtual currency, called Ether.
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Exploring a Different Kind of Team Sport
Imagine that you wanted to get teens excited about a competitive, extracurricular team.
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Team Builds Flexible Platform For High-Performance Electronics
A team of engineers has created a functional flexible transistor that's scalable to the commercial level and could open the door to "smart" objects like wearable...
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