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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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Most people think of NASA as an organization full of rocket scientists. But while the U.S. space agency has spent decades launching spaceships and working on other...CNET From ACM Careers | February 14, 2012
Rakesh Babu, a blind assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, says the Internet is critical to education and social interaction in today’s...niversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee From ACM Careers | February 14, 2012
For most of the U.S. military's far-flung community of scientists and engineers, Monday was a day to pop a Xanax.Wired From ACM News | February 14, 2012
In December, MIT announced the launch of an online learning initiative called "MITx." Starting this week, interested learners can now enroll for free in the initiative’s...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | February 13, 2012
David Weinberger has a new book out entitled Too Big to Know in which he argues that one of the implications of a comprehensively networked society is that the...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | February 13, 2012
Google's very first employee, Craig Silverstein, is leaving the company to join the high-profile online learning phenom, Khan Academy.AllThingsD From ACM Careers | February 10, 2012
Every week at a kitchen table in Brooklyn, coders Amit Pitaru and David Nolen host a salon/workshop called Kitchen Table Coders, bringing together a small group...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 10, 2012
With growing worries about the threat of "cyber warfare," militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central...Reuters From ACM Careers | February 10, 2012
Facebook Inc., with an eye toward future business relationships, wants to be friends with more social-media start-ups.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | February 9, 2012
Imagine a scenario where your next job interview isn't face-to-face, but face-to-screen. There are no questions about your former work experience and office habits...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 8, 2012
Sam Ramji met AT&T chief technology officer John Donovan on a speed date—or at least the tech world equivalent of a speed date.Wired From ACM News | February 7, 2012
There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest of all. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years, he's taken...Gizmodo From ACM Opinion | February 7, 2012
Late this January, some 75,000 people around the planet sat in front of their computers and pondered how to make anagrams from a bowl of alphabet soup.Technology Review From ACM News | February 6, 2012
Researchers Maja Matari?, Ayse Saygin and Andrea Thomaz discuss how understanding the human mind is the key to social robotics, and what we can expect from this...Kavli Foundation From ACM Careers | February 6, 2012
Once upon a time, a very long time ago, in 1995 to be precise, a scholar named Eli Noam published an article in the prestigious journal Science under the titleElectronics...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2012
After waiting for so long to see the numbers inside Facebook's success, it's easy to be overwhelmed by all the new data we have about the social network and company...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 3, 2012
So the numbers are out, and we know that Facebook’s ad business really is huge. And it really is growing like a weed.AllThingsD From ACM Careers | February 2, 2012
Many IT departments are struggling with Apple's "take it or leave it" attitude, based on discussions last week at MacIT, which is Macworld|iWorld's companion conference...Networkworld From ACM Careers | February 2, 2012
David Karp, the founder of the blogging platform Tumblr, was 17 when he decided to cut the apron strings and move to Tokyo. With a smattering of Japanese and a...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | January 31, 2012