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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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A new version of 'zero-knowledge proofs' allows cloud customers to verify the proper execution of their software with a single packet of data.MIT News From ACM Careers | September 11, 2013
The birth of artificial-intelligence research as an autonomous discipline is generally thought to have been the monthlong Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial...MIT News Office From ACM News | September 10, 2013
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.MIT News Office From ACM News | September 9, 2013
Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gained fame in the 1990s for co-founding iRobot, an MIT spinoff that brought the world the Roomba and other innovative, helpful...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | August 9, 2013
Earlier this year, MIT researchers developed a way to easily and efficiently edit the genomes of living cells. Now, the researchers have discovered key factors...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 24, 2013
In 2006, when Tomás Palacios completed his PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he was torn between taking...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | July 3, 2013
If you walk the halls at MIT, you may notice a lot of students wearing T-shirts bearing the Dropbox logo. It's a simple design—an opened box—but one that carries...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | June 6, 2013
One of the many promising applications of quantum mechanics in the information sciences is quantum key distribution (QKD) in which the counterintuitive behavior...MIT News Office From ACM News | May 22, 2013
Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories have used TEM imaging to observe, at a molecular level, the charging of lithium-air batteries. The technique...MIT News From ACM Careers | May 14, 2013
"If there was a Ph.D. in learning everything, I would do that," the always-enthusiastic Sal Khan '98, MEng '98 said in a talk Wednesday at MIT's Kresge Auditorium...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | May 10, 2013
'Superlattice' structure could give a huge boost to oxygen reaction in fuel cells, increasing their power potential.MIT News From ACM Careers | April 30, 2013
As 2,700 people settled into their seats on Friday morning at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, author Michael Lewis surveyed the scene from the dais and...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | March 7, 2013
Celebrated political forecaster Nate Silver has shot to fame by letting the data speak loudly about elections.MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | March 1, 2013
MIT's third annual Diversity Summit, held last week at Kresge Auditorium, reflected the growing importance of inclusion at the Institute: From 70 attendees at the...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | February 4, 2013
To understand the progression of complex diseases such as cancer, scientists have had to tease out the interactions between cells at progressively finer scales—from...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | January 8, 2013
A new design for a P-type transistor, a basic component of all computer chips, boasts a 'carrier mobility' that is twice as fast as previous experimental transistors...MIT News From ACM Careers | January 4, 2013
Since NASA's Curiosity rover made its extraordinary Aug. 6 touchdown on Mars, it has been roving the Martian landscape, returning startling images.MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2012
Scientists have enabled MIT's HAUV robot to navigate and view propellers, complex structures, and underwater environments, with a goal of rivaling divers in speed...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | July 18, 2012
Researchers at MIT working on battery-free monitoring systems have developing a chip that harvests power from light, heat, and vibrations — which could ultimately...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | July 9, 2012