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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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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
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
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
As electronic and optical devices get ever faster, terms for ever-smaller increments of time are coming into wider use.MIT News Office From ACM Careers | September 18, 2012
A new system that automatically streamlines database access patterns can make large Web applications up to three times as fast.MIT News Office From ACM Careers | August 31, 2012
A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that's much shorter and clearer — but also faster.MIT News Office From ACM Careers | August 2, 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
A semiautonomous safety system developed at MIT monitors a driver's performance and takes control only when the driver's actions are unsafe. MIT News Office From ACM Careers | July 13, 2012
In a new book, an MIT researcher looks at the influence of high-tech simulations on the profession of architecture.MIT News Office From ACM Careers | June 25, 2012
MIT has been selected from among 55 institutions that submitted 157 proposals to host a new Intel research center that will concentrate on what's come to be called...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | June 13, 2012
A new algorithm developed at MIT will allow robots and humans to work side by side on a factory floor. MIT News Office From ACM Careers | June 12, 2012
Daniela Rus, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the next director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | May 23, 2012
Savvy hackers can steal a computer's secrets by timing its data storage transactions or measuring its power use. New research shows how to stop them.MIT News Office From ACM Careers | May 2, 2012
When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s initially on automobile assembly lines—computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were...MIT News Office From ACM News | April 25, 2012