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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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"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2017
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...The New York Times From ACM News | June 5, 2017
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 2, 2017
DARPA-funded researchers have created a cognitive-computational model of human norms in a representation that can be coded into machines, clearing a path to the...DARPA From ACM Careers | June 2, 2017
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
Ars Technica From ACM News | June 1, 2017
Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to feel tactile feedback when they interact with virtual...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM Careers | June 1, 2017
James Miller, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Kansas, is exploring new ways to open the Spencer Museum...niversity of Kansas From ACM Careers | June 1, 2017
Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence...The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 31, 2017
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...Scientific American From ACM News | May 26, 2017
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a printed battery that is flexible, stretchable, and rechargeable, a step toward self-powered...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM Careers | May 25, 2017
Google's latest effort to thaw relations with China involves an artificial intelligence pow-wow—and a few games of Go.
Bloomberg From ACM Careers | May 23, 2017
At the VR keynote at Google's IO developer conference, a slide appeared on screen to start the morning's presentation. Clay Bavor, head of AR and VR for Google,...CNET From ACM Opinion | May 19, 2017
If I asked you "how many computing devices do you own?" your mind will probably first jump to your PCs and laptops at home, and then to your smartphones and tablets...Ars Technica From ACM News | May 17, 2017