Faculty Mini Sabbatical Program - Summer 2025 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA, United States
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As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...
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When Will Computers Have Common Sense? Ask Facebook
Facebook is well known for its early and increasing use of artificial intelligence.
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The Man Who Can Map the Chemicals All Over Your Body
Apart from the treadmill desk, Pieter Dorrestein's office at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is unremarkable: there is a circular table with chairs...
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This Is Where the Real Action in Artificial Intelligence Takes Place
Swarms of journalists lined the halls of a Southern California oceanfront resort recently to see tech luminaries like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk discuss the Gawker...
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The World's Top Economists Want to Work For Amazon and Facebook
At an April meetup organized by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), a Facebook researcher named Michael Bailey showed his peers how somebody...
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Why the World Hates Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is the new Rome. As in the time of Caesar, the world is grappling with an advanced city-state dominating much of the planet, injecting its technology...
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How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel's Tech Industry
Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.
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What's Driving Silicon Valley to Become 'radicalized'
Like many Silicon Valley start-ups, Larry Gadea's company collects heaps of sensitive data from his customers.
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The Ipad Has Arrived to (someday) Change Baseball Forever
Minutes before the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics trot onto the field during an overcast May afternoon, A's bullpen coach Scott Emerson strides along the...
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What Are Chatbots? And Why Does Big Tech Love Them So Much?
Chatbots! They're all the rage: Kik has them, Facebook wants them, and it seems like every computer coder wants to make them. But what are they? And why is every...
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Like It or Not, Facebook Has the Right to Choose Your News
There's an old saying that you shouldn't pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
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AI Talent Grab Sparks Excitement and Concern
When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...
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Future Smartphones Will Tell You What's Killing Your Plants
A farmer in the Philippines walks through his rice paddies and sees worrying orange smears on his crops.
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He Catches What mps Might Miss
Brett Weber, drafted by the Yankees in the 14th round in 1998, never rose above Class A in the minor leagues. Now he watches their home games from a windowless...
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You Pay to Read Research You Fund. That's Ludicrous
In 2011, developer and researcher Alexandra Elbakyan launched Sci-Hub, an online archive that shares research articles freely and openly without paywalls or restrictions...
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Every Shot Kobe Bryant Ever Took. All 30,699 of Them
Kobe Bryant's 30,699th and final field goal came from 19 feet with 31 seconds left against the Utah Jazz.
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Say What You See, Facebook
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