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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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New efforts are underway to help students make sense of the array of online courses, degrees, and certification options. For example, the Balloon online tool...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | March 18, 2014
Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.Science Magazine From ACM Careers | March 14, 2014
Sequencing a person's entire genome can reveal potentially life-saving information about the presence of mutations associated with diseases.Nature From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
Long before he was the two-hundred-and-second richest person on the planet, Jan Koum was just another curious kid with a wardialer.Forbes From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
The Cisco Meraki office in Mission Bay, San Francisco, is 40 paces from the water, and just as nice as Google's.The New York Times Magazine From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...Stanford Report From ACM News | March 13, 2014
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 13, 2014
Enrollment for computer science bachelor's degree programs in the U.S. jumped 22 percent last year, according to the Computing Research Association's 2013 Taulbee...Network World From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2014
Southern Methodist University says it will offer a first-of-its-kind graduate degree in data center engineering, with classes starting this fall. IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2014
Software programming should take priority over modern languages in British schools, according to a Code.org survey of more than 2,000 adults across the United Kingdom...The Guardian From ACM TechNews | March 5, 2014
Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.Nieman Journalism Review From ACM News | March 6, 2014
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2014
When Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2014
The normally humdrum world of IT security is heating up, and not just because of comedian Stephen Colbert's controversial closing keynote at last week's RSA Conference...Fortune From ACM Careers | March 4, 2014
The idea of erasing and implanting memories is a common feature of science fiction films such as Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.Wired From ACM Opinion | March 3, 2014
An Internet search engine developed specifically for schools is being tested as a way to increase reading abilities in challenged students and help motivate intellectual...niversity of Alabama Huntsville From ACM Careers | February 28, 2014
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer...Nature From ACM News | February 27, 2014
David Heinemeier Hansson is a book author, a public speaker, a photographer, a father, a race car driver, and the founder and CTO of the productivity software firm ...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 27, 2014