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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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We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | October 9, 2013
Humans rely on non-facial cues, such as body shape and build, to identify people in challenging viewing conditions or when faces are obscured. Interestingly, people...University of Texas, Dallas From ACM Careers | October 8, 2013
Twitter, poised to make its splashy entrance on Wall Street, has helped define modern social networking.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 7, 2013
The widespread mourning of Tom Clancy's death last week is clear testament to a man who managed to have a significant impact across a range of media.Salon From ACM Opinion | October 7, 2013
It sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.Nature From ACM News | October 4, 2013
David Moser, the academic director at CET Beijing Chinese Studies, remembers the bad old days of Mandarin-learning methodology in the 1980s and 1990s.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 4, 2013
Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | October 2, 2013
Almost immediately after receiving their new school-issued iPads this fall, students in Indiana and in California (and probably elsewhere) managed to bypass the...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | October 2, 2013
In 1983, intrigued by an article on fractals, I wrote a program to display the Mandelbrot set on my family's TRS-80 Color Computer.CNET From ACM Opinion | October 2, 2013
The recent revelation that the National Security Agency collects the personal data of United States citizens, allies and enemies alike has broken the traditional...Politico From ACM Opinion | October 1, 2013
A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and younger people have varying preferences about what they would want a personal robot to...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | October 1, 2013
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...CNET From ACM News | September 30, 2013
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.CNET From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2013
Researchers have developed new tools that allow people with minimal programming skill to rapidly build cellphone applications that can help with disaster relief...MIT News From ACM Careers | September 30, 2013
The U.S. National Security Agency has posted an ad for a "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer," offering critics of the NSA a well-nigh irresistible chance to play...CNET From ACM Careers | September 27, 2013