Instructor - University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC
Columbia, SC, 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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Computing at the Speed of Light
University of Utah engineers havedeveloped an ultracompact beamsplitter that brings researchers closer to producing silicon photonic chips that compute and shuttle...
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Behind the Indie Video Game Sensation that Caught Nasa's Attention
"Here let's zoom in so you can see your Kerbal floating above Kerbin," my boyfriend suggests before hitting the "M" key on his keyboard.
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What a Dinosaur's Mating Scream Sounds Like
Two years ago, Sean Murray, a video-game developer from the town of Guildford, outside London, announced an ambitious game that he had been working on in secrecy...
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This Little 3D Printed Robot Cracks Combination Locks in 30 Seconds
Careful what you leave in your lockers, high school students and gym-goers.
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A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won't Hurt the Climate
It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science—creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the...
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'rise of the Robots' and 'shadow Work'
In the late 20th century, while the blue-collar working class gave way to the forces of globalization and automation, the educated elite looked on with benign condescension...
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Nasa Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts For Further Study
NASA has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction into science...
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Nasa Announces Journey to Mars Challenge, Seeks Public Input on Establishing Sustained Human Presence on Red Planet
What do you need to bring, and how do you minimize the need for delivery of future supplies in order to establish a sustained human presence on a planet 140 million...
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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Finally, Neural Networks That Actually Work
As a senior at the University of Minnesota, Jeff Dean built an artificial brain. Kinda.
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How Self-Driving Tractor-Trailers May Reinvent What It Means to Be a Truck Driver
Daimler Trucks North America showed off a self-driving truck in a glitzy ceremony Tuesday at the Hoover Dam, offering a reminder of the coming era of autonomous...
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Foxconn's Robot Army Yet to Prove Match For Humans
Four years ago, Foxconn founder Terry Gou envisaged an army of one million robots would now be working the assembly lines at the world's biggest contract electronics...
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Quantum Computers Will Make Your Laptop Look Like an Abacus
The race to make the first quantum computer is becoming as important as the race 75 years ago to get the first nuke. It could change the balance of power in politics...
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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Joseph Lechleider, a Father of the Dsl Internet Technology, Dies at 82
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...
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Ancient Dna Tells a New Human Story
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...
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Robots May Look Like Job-Killers, But It's Hard to See in the Numbers
Robots are goosing the productivity of the world's factories, but does that mean fewer jobs for humans?
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Future 'top Guns' Will Be Battle Managers Flying Bigger, Slower Aircraft
At the dawn of aerial combat 100 years ago, World War I flying aces frequently closed to within 15 meters before firing at enemy aircraft with their machine guns...
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How to Crack Many Master Lock Combinations in Eight Tries or Less
There's a vulnerability in Master Lock branded padlocks that allows anyone to learn the combination in eight or fewer tries, a process that requires less than two...
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IBM Brings Quantum Computing a Step Closer
Researchers at IBM have stitched together a prototype circuit that could become the basis of quantum computers a decade hence.
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