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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Inside Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter's Latest Production
At Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) in La Jolla, California, more than two dozen machines work around the clock, sequencing one human genome every 15 minutes at a cost...
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Facebook's Really Big Plans For Virtual Reality
The office building on Facebook Way is in the unfinished style that honors materials like plywood, concrete, and steel.
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Now You Too Can Buy Cloud-Based Deep Learning
Facebook's deep-learning artificial intelligence systems have learned to recognize your friends in your photos, and Google's AI has learned to anticipate what you’ll...
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Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?
It's been a lousy couple of years for researchers who study the effects of computerized brain training.
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It's the Data, Stupid: Why Database Admins Are More Important Than Ever
For those of us who have been in the information technology realm for too long, the title "database administrator" conjures up very specific images.
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Companies Are Flooding Earth's Orbit with Satellites, but No One's Directing Traffic
Companies around the globe are launching an increasing number of satellites, crowding Earth's orbit in an effort to satisfy the ravenous on-demand desire for more...
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Hey Robot, Shimmy Like a Centipede
Researchers at Kyoto University have asked why centipedes move with such dexterity, and have turned to computer simulations and ultimately robotics to find an answer...
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On
Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)...
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Mars Rover's Laser Can Now Target Rocks All by Itself
New software is enabling ChemCam, the laser spectrometer on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, to select rock targets autonomously — the first time autonomous target...
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Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary
There's a high-stakes race under way in Silicon Valley to develop software that makes it easy to weave artificial intelligence technology into almost everything...
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Quantum Drag
Current in one iron magnetic sheet can create quantized spin waves in a separate sheet, a finding that researchers say could play a role in the development of smaller...
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The nsung Heroes of Crispr
When Blake Wiedenheft started studying microbes, his work was both remote and obscure.
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Research Team Develops Plastic Flexible Magnetic Memory Device
A novel technique to implant a high-performance magnetic memory chip on a flexible plastic surface marks a breakthrough in flexible electronics and brings researchers...
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Hololens Augmented Reality to Foil Hack Attacks in Factories
The robotic production line is churning along just fine when Kevin Jones plugs a USB stick into the control computer.
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This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals
When historians look back at the turmoil over prejudice and policing in the U.S. over the past few years, they're unlikely to dwell on the case of Eric Loomis.
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'smart' Thread Collects Diagnostic Data When Sutured Into Tissue
Researchers have integrated nanoscale sensors, electronics, and microfluidics into threads that can be sutured through multiple layers of tissue to gather diagnostic...
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Results, Results, Results: Most-Compelling Space Station Science Honored at R&D Conference
Research, and getting to the eventual results of that research, can take quite a bit of time.
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DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...
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Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics
Hanns Tappeiner types a few lines of code into his laptop and hits "return."
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Engineered 'sand' May Help Cool Electronic Devices
A new class of high thermal conductivity materials could allow heat dissipation from power electronics, LEDs, and other applications with high heat fluxes.
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