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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 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
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
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
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
In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | December 27, 2013
It's often easy to tell at a glance the difference between a mass-produced object and one that has been handcrafted: The handmade item is likely to have distinctive...MIT News Office From ACM News | November 26, 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
"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
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