Data center proposals face growing opposition from towns across the US, as officials and residents raise concerns about data centers' water and electricity use
Daniel Wu / Washington Post : Bluesky: @justinhendrix and @tweetintheblind Bluesky: Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : “It feels like there's been a real shift over the last six months or so in terms ...
Sources: FBI is investigating if an attempted hack into Voatz app used during the 2018 midterms was part of a University of Michigan election security course
currently the subject of an FBI investigation — comes from an election security class at the University of Michigan. https://www.cnn.com/...
How HBO's “Silicon Valley” accurately portrays and satirizes Silicon Valley: extensive research and expert consultants
When Dick Costolo attended the University of Michigan, in the nineteen-eighties, his major was computer science, but he was surprised to find that he also had a knack for improv comedy.
How 3-D printing is revolutionizing medicine
In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month-old boy. The baby had been born wit...
The Wizard - Meet Alex Pentland, father of the wearable computer
Meet Alex Pentland, father of the wearable computer — It all started with beavers. When Alex Pentland was three years into his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan, in 1973, he worked...
Facebook's dedicated unfollow button triples unfollows as users tire of original friend model
Facebook's friend problem — Why can't the social network adapt to how we make (and lose) friends? — When I arrived at the University of Michigan in fall 2007, everybody said “Facebook me.”
CS students increasingly turn to hackathons and open source projects to apply their knowledge
With Hackathons Taking Center Stage, The Coming Transformation Of The Computer Scientist — When Dave Fontenot moved to the University of Michigan from his home in South Florida in the fall of 2011 …
Google Tops In Search Satisfaction According To Pre-Bing Survey
On an annual basis the University of Michigan puts out the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business report, sponsored and administered by Foresee Results. Among the things the index exa...
Google Book-Scanning Pact to Give Libraries Input on Price
SAN FRANCISCO — In a move that could blunt some of the criticism of Google for its settlement of a lawsuit over its book-scanning project, the company signed an agreement with the University of Michig...
Larry Page Delivers Powerful Commencement Speech At U of M [Video]
Earlier today I had the privilege to hear Google co-founder Larry Page speak at the University of Michigan. I found his commencement speech to be quite moving. He talked about how his parents first ...