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Tufts goes to the marathon

Karl Cronburg, a Ph.D. student in computer science, Brian Rappaport, a senior studying electrical engineering, and Kerrianne Marino, a master's student in human factors, were among the engineers who participated in the Boston Marathon on Monday.
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Interacting with robot waiters

Researchers from Tufts University and Colorado School of Mines recently presented a paper at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, exploring the role of indirect speech acts on our interactions with robots in different sce
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Tufts undergraduates win national hackathon

Computer Science majors Winnona DeSombre, A18, and Gabriella Roncone, A19, won the grand prize in the Defending Digital Democracy Project’s (D3P) first-ever Information Operations Technical and Policy Hackathon.
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The benefits and risks of artificial intelligence

Professor Kathleen Fisher was part of a forum that informed the findings of a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on "Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications."
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Emotional attachment to robots

Professor Matthias Scheutz spoke to Austria's Der Standard about the unidirectional emotional bonds that humans can create between themselves and robots like automated vacuum cleaners.
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Coding that can't be hacked?

Professor Kathleen Fisher explains how recent developments by DARPA have allowed computer scientists to use mathematical proofs to verify that code—up to 100,000 lines of it at a time—is functionally correct and free of bugs.