The United States has announced that scientists have made a breakthrough in fusion energy, in what officials called a “milestone” that has the potential to one day become a boundless source of clean energy. At a press conference on Tuesday, US officials said that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National […]
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In the past, tech companies used their internship programs to recruit promising job candidates, extending offers to many students to return as full-time employees after graduation. But this year, those opportunities are shrinking. More on Big Tech Microsoft: The company’s $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard, which rests on winning […]
A rendering of the Gateway building on Hearst Avenue at Arch Street. (Rendering by Weiss/Manfredi architecture firm) “In many ways, the Gateway is the crown jewel of our $6 billion Light the Way campaign,” said UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ at the Sept. 23 groundbreaking ceremony celebrating the initial phase […]
A visual model of Guy Bresler’s research would probably look something like a Venn diagram. He works at the four-way intersection where theoretical computer science, statistics, probability, and information theory collide. “There are always new things to do be done at the interface. There are always opportunities for entirely new […]
A 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult unearthed in a cave in Indonesia provides the oldest known evidence of an amputation, according to a new study. Previously, the earliest known amputation involved a 7,000-year-old skeleton found in France, and experts believed such operations only emerged in settled agricultural societies. The […]
Clarkson Computer Science PhD student and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awardee Nikolas Lamb presented his research on using techniques from artificial intelligence (AI), particularly computer vision and deep learning, to repair damaged objects at the Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), the highest ranking venue in geometry processing techniques on […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has decided to cancel the science and technology research effort that could have led to a program to develop a strategic long-range cannon, the service confirmed. Long-range precision fires is a top priority for the Army when it comes to developing a modernized force capable […]