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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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Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by applying...MIT News From ACM Careers | January 20, 2016
Google researchers released a paper last week suggesting that the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena. Scott Aaronson of MIT helps make sense of the new...MIT News From ACM Careers | December 14, 2015
A general-purpose optimization algorithm described in the winner of the best-student-paper award at the FOCS 2015 symposium promises order-of-magnitude speedups...MIT News From ACM Careers | October 23, 2015
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | March 3, 2015
The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...MIT News From ACM News | February 20, 2015
Researchers have unveiled a new design that in experiments extended the superposition time of a promising type of qubit a hundredfold, which could lead toward practical...MIT News From ACM Careers | January 30, 2015
Researchers have cleared a path toward a new kind of 2-D microchip that would use characteristics of electrons other than their electrical charge. Dubbed "valleytronics...MIT News From ACM Careers | December 16, 2014
Researchers at MIT say they have carried out a theoretical analysis showing that a family of two-dimensional materials exhibits exotic quantum properties that...MIT News From ACM Careers | November 21, 2014
MIT researchers have unveiled a new circuit design that could unlock the power of experimental superconducting computer chips and make the them cheaper to manufacture...MIT News From ACM Careers | October 17, 2014
Molybdenum disulfide, a promising light source for optoelectronic chips, can be tuned to different frequencies.MIT News From ACM Careers | September 17, 2014
Whenever the first NASA astronauts arrive on Mars, they will likely have MIT to thank for the oxygen they breathe—and for the oxygen needed to burn rocket fuel...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | August 1, 2014
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 4, 2014
A team of researchers has produced a detailed visualization of how sodium manganese dioxide behaves during charging and discharging, elucidating an exotic molecular...MIT News From ACM Careers | May 22, 2014
Scott Aaronson travels the far reaches of computational complexity, shaping conventional and quantum computing.
MIT News From ACM Careers | April 8, 2014
When he was in elementary school, Scott Aaronson, like many mathematically precocious kids of his generation, dreamed of making his own video games.MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2014
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 13, 2014
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2014
Transparent displays have a variety of potential applications—such as the ability to see navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshield...MIT News Office From ACM News | January 22, 2014
MIT Media Lab professor emeritus Marvin Minsky, 86, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award...MIT News Office From ACM News | January 17, 2014