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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Scientists can't seem to agree on what a quantum computer is. But the uncertainty hasn't deterred Google from backing a second major effort in the field.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | September 3, 2014
Washington State has one of the United States' fastest growing STEM workforces and Grant Forsyth, chief economist with Avista Corp., says failing to engage women...The Spokesman-Review From ACM TechNews | August 29, 2014
Excessive cellphone usage poses potential risks to the academic performance of college students, according to a Baylor University study on cellphone activity published...Baylor niversity From ACM Careers | August 29, 2014
Chuck Hull, 75, is co-founder and chief technology officer of 3D Systems. He is the inventor of the 3-D printer, which recently celebrated its 31st anniversary.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | August 26, 2014
Darin Wedel made headlines in 2012 when his wife, Jennifer, asked President Barack Obama during a Google+ Hangout why her husband was still out of work while H-1B...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | August 21, 2014
The nonprofit Girls Who Code's summer program has grown from 20 girls in one classroom in 2012 to 380 girls in classrooms at 16 companies across the country. USA Today From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2014
Companies and institutions are offering new scholarships that will help today's college students use social media to help finance college costs.Bankrate From ACM Careers | August 13, 2014
I threw down a bit of a challenge last month at the Association of Medical Illustrators Conference in Minnesota.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 13, 2014
For one weekend every year, thousands of the world’s best—or worst, depending on your point of view—hackers meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, for Defcon.Time From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2014
The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program's Summer Bridge program included more than 20 high school students who took college-level math courses and interned...U.S. News & World Report From ACM TechNews | August 8, 2014
Clayton Anderson, a retired NASA astronaut, worked with Iowa State aerospace engineers to develop a prototype workshop in spaceflight operations. The goal is to...Iowa State University From ACM Careers | August 6, 2014
Genevieve Bell grew up among Aboriginal people in Australia, taught anthropology at Stanford and for the past 16 years has worked for Intel.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 4, 2014
A lack of basic coding skills could result in Europe facing a shortage of up to 900,000 information and computer technology professionals by 2020, according to...ComputerWeekly.com From ACM TechNews | August 1, 2014
Researchers at the MIT have analyzed data from Harvard University and MIT's shared online learning platform to gain a richer understanding of what makes massively...MIT News From ACM TechNews | August 1, 2014
First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation.Wired From ACM News | August 1, 2014
Earlier this month Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol and current Google vice president, openly asked professional programmers for feedback regarding...ITworld From ACM Opinion | July 31, 2014
Thirteen teams participated in the first University of Chicago Data Visualization Challenge, a competition to create insightful, novel, and well-designed visual...niversity of Chicago From ACM Careers | July 30, 2014
Can children learn to code at the same age they're learning to tie their shoes? That's the idea behind ScratchJr, a free iPad app developed by researchers at the...Tufts University From ACM Careers | July 30, 2014