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Students who want to pursue a career in the fast-growing video game industry can prepare themselves in multiple ways at UMass Lowell. The video game industry employs many kinds of specialists, from ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...