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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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The number of fatalities associated with autonomous systems such as driverless cars will increase as more are used, says automation expert Timothy Carone of the...niversity of Notre Dame From ACM Careers | July 5, 2016
In the age of big data analytics, the proprietary algorithms web sites use to determine what data to display to visitors have the potential to illegally discriminate...Wired From ACM News | June 29, 2016
Boris Sofman taps his phone, and the robot on the conference room table in front of him wakes up. Not in that gadget-y way, like when a laptop screen turns on,...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 27, 2016
University of Washington researchers are using the MegaFace challenge competition to evaluate and improve the performance of face recognition algorithms at the...niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | June 24, 2016
Neuroscientist Ryan McGarry swabbed a brain activity headset with saline solution and lowered it onto Brian Hazel's head, connecting circular prongs gingerly to...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | June 23, 2016
The business sections of bookstores overflow with guides to success—the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, for instance, has stamped his name on more than a...Los Angeles Times From ACM Careers | June 23, 2016
The dazzling sunlight that flooded the lake-front restaurant where I sat down with Chris Kraft in 2014 was nothing compared to the brightness in his eyes.Ars Technica From ACM News | June 22, 2016
On a warm evening in 2014, Attila Szantner, a Hungarian Web entrepreneur, and his friend Bernard Revaz, a Swiss physics researcher, sat on a balcony in Geneva and...The New Yorker From ACM Careers | June 22, 2016
Matt Krisiloff is in a small, glass-walled conference room off the lobby of Y Combinator’s office in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, shouting distance...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 21, 2016
A syringe-making machine built by Stevanato Group SpA of Italy runs 23 hours a day, churning out glass needles that can be filled with blood thinners, vaccines...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 20, 2016
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and the University of Georgia believe they can make eye tracking technology pervasive with software turns any smartphone into an eye-tracking...MIT News From ACM Careers | June 16, 2016
Researchers from MIT CSAIL have demonstrated an algorithm that has effectively learned how to predict sound: When shown a silent video clip of an object being hit...MIT CSAIL From ACM Careers | June 14, 2016
Apart from the treadmill desk, Pieter Dorrestein's office at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is unremarkable: there is a circular table with chairs...Nature From ACM Careers | June 14, 2016
The next-generation factory worker isn't a robot, but a tech-augmented human—a kind of "Iron Man" outfitted with performance-enhancing gear.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | June 9, 2016
Silicon Valley is the new Rome. As in the time of Caesar, the world is grappling with an advanced city-state dominating much of the planet, injecting its technology...Newsweek From ACM Careers | June 9, 2016
Donald Trump says that if he becomes president, he will "get Apple to start making their computers and their iPhones on our land, not in China." Bernie Sanders...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2016
They replaced horses, didn't they? That's how the late, great economist Wassily Leontief responded 35 years ago to those who argued technology would never really...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2016
One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.Technology Review From ACM News | June 8, 2016