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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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Researchers from France and Hungary have invented a way to print lasers that's so cheap, easy, and efficient they believe the core of the laser could be disposed...American Institute of Physics From ACM Careers | May 4, 2016
Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. But the Silicon Valley...NPR From ACM Opinion | May 3, 2016
The £61-million (US$89-million) National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, UK, has been open for little more than a year. But a parliamentary...Nature From ACM Careers | May 3, 2016
A new study shows a mobile divide between individuals and households in urban or affluent areas and those in rural or lower-income areas.Cornell niversity From ACM Careers | May 3, 2016
North Carolina State University researchers have developed and used a customized suite of technologies that allows a computer to train a dog autonomously, with...North Carolina State niversity From ACM Careers | May 3, 2016
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...The New Yorker From ACM News | May 2, 2016
A new report urges U.S. policymakers to take decisive steps to ensure the United States continues to be a world leader in high-performance computing. Otherwise,...Information Technology and Innovation Foundation From ACM Careers | May 2, 2016
Using supercomputer simulations at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, researchers have identified aluminum nitride as a possible candidate...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM Careers | May 2, 2016
Japan's flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on February 17 but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by...Scientific American From ACM Careers | April 29, 2016
The timing of key press input on a touchscreen is unpredictable, and performance improves when the timing is made more predictable.Aalto University From ACM Careers | April 29, 2016
Research finds retweeting or otherwise sharing information creates a "cognitive overload" that interferes with learning and retaining what you've just seen. Worse...Cornell niversity From ACM Careers | April 29, 2016
It's getting more and more crowded on baseball’s bleeding edge. As sabermetrics has expanded to swallow new disciplines and data sets,1 the number of quantitative...FiveThirtyEight From ACM Careers | April 29, 2016
Researchers at Boise State University are looking for a better way to store digital information using nucleic acid memory.Boise State University From ACM Careers | April 28, 2016
Researchers have designed a technology intended to improve the built-in zoom feature of smartphones, which many low-vision users find difficult to use due to a...Massachusetts Eye and Ear From ACM Careers | April 28, 2016
When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...Nature From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016
A project to provide tablet computers loaded with literacy applications to young children in economically disadvantaged communities has reported encouraging results...MIT News From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016
University of Iowa computer scientists found that Twitter users' feelings of long-term happiness and satisfaction with their lives remained steady over time, consistent...University of Iowa From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016
The Chinese government's push to put science and technology at the forefront of the nation's development is creating new breed of highly-paid scientific academics...South China Morning Post From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016
MIT Professor Emeritus Thomas B. Sheridan says the time is ripe for human factors researchers to contribute scientific insights to tackle the many challenges of...Human Factors and Ergonomics Society From ACM Careers | April 26, 2016