Lorraine Robinson retires.
Longtime administrative assistant Lorraine Robinson retired in June after working in the Department of Computer Science for over a decade. Continue reading »
Colloquium
Department Bowling and Chinese
All majors are well to join the department for bowling and chinese on Friday, 06 April 2012 at 17.00. We will roll a few rounds at Mt. Greylock Bowl and then have Chinese food at Chopsticks. Continue reading »
Emery Berger
Programming with People: Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation Humans can perform many tasks with ease that remain difficult or impossible for computers. Crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk make it possible to harness human-based computational power on an unprecedented scale. However, their utility as a general-purpose computational platform remains… Continue reading »
Dr. David Ferrucci
Class of 1960s Scholars Lecture in Computer Science Beyond Jeopardy! The Future of Watson Computer systems that directly and accurately understand and answer people’s questions over a broad domain of human knowledge have been envisioned by scientists and writers since the advent of computers themselves. Toy solutions are… Continue reading »
Ben Ransford
Transiently Powered Computers Demand for tiny, easily deployable computers has driven the development of general-purpose transiently powered computers (TPCs) that lack both batteries and wired power, operating exclusively on energy harvested from remote supplies or the environment. TPCs like the Intel WISP and the UMass Moo offer sensing, computation, and… Continue reading »
Samuel Z. Guyer
Tools for Improving Software Right Now Many areas of technology have enjoyed spectacular advances in recent years: the number of transistors on a chip, the density of memory and storage, the bandwidth and speed of networks. Software quality, however, is not one of them. In spite of considerable effort, the… Continue reading »