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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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Durham University researchers are developing NumberNet, a multi-touch, multi-user classroom desk that can boost students' math skills. The desk has shown that...Durham University From ACM TechNews | November 30, 2012
You press a button and wait for your elevator. How long before you get impatient and agitated? Theresa Christy says 20 seconds.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | December 4, 2012
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the avant-garde research and development arm of the Department of Defense—perhaps best known for its central...Threatpost From ACM Careers | December 4, 2012
There is plenty of debate about just how much Big Data analytics can help businesses make smarter decisions to increase sales and cut costs. Yet there seems to...The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 3, 2012
Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | December 3, 2012
Asian-Americans make up half of the Bay Area's technology workforce, and their double-digit employment gains came from jobs lost among white tech workers, according...The San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | November 30, 2012
While we love to focus on the entrepreneurs and startups that bring new technologies to market, so much of the groundbreaking innovation that has driven the U.S...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 29, 2012
Despite women's gains in educational attainment (they are now the majority of college graduates), an ugly gender pay gap persists.Forbes From ACM Careers | November 28, 2012
It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.Wired From ACM Careers | November 28, 2012
The computer science field remains dominated by men. The U.S. National Science Foundation says the number of women graduating with computer science degrees has...SA Today From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2012
When Randy Adams, 60, was looking for a chief-executive officer job in Silicon Valley last year, he got turned down from position after position that he thought...Reuters From ACM Careers | November 27, 2012
How do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company?The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 26, 2012
Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel of Microsoft, weighs in on what academia and industry can do to produce more graduates with the IT skills...The Wall Street Journal From ACM CareerNews | October 18, 2012
Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 21, 2012
Silicon Valley remains the world's most attractive spot for technology start-ups with other locations around the world catching up, according to a report published...Reuters From ACM Careers | November 21, 2012
Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 19, 2012
Approximately 1,400 middle schoolers will explore the universe with research-grade robotic telescopes over the next three years, thanks to a $1.6 million program...niversity of Chicago From ACM Careers | November 19, 2012
Through a five-year, $6.24 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | November 16, 2012
Building on its success in drawing more women and under-represented minority students to study computer science, UMass Amherst has won a $6.24 million grant from...niversity of Massachusetts Amherst From ACM Careers | November 16, 2012
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 12 grants, totaling more than $3 million, in new investments in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation From ACM Careers | November 14, 2012