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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
Edward Tian, a 22-year-old computer science student at Princeton, has built an app that detects whether an essay is written by the AI-powered language model ChatGPT...NPR From ACM Careers | January 10, 2023
Mattel has recognized six women scientists as role models in the fight against COVID-19 with Barbie dolls made in their likeness.
NPR From ACM Careers | August 6, 2021
As businesses look to reopen, technology firms are offering an array of monitoring systems to try to keep the coronavirus out of office buildings, medical facilities...NPR From ACM Careers | October 13, 2020
Three Nigerian-Irish teenage girls were awarded the top prize of the Technovation nonprofit's annual Technovation Girls international competition, for an application...NPR From ACM TechNews | October 9, 2020
A group of teenage girls in Afghanistan are trying to build a mechanized, hand-operated ventilator for coronavirus patients, using a design from MIT and parts from...NPR From ACM Careers | May 21, 2020
With cash reserves drying up and investors scarce, hundreds of tech startups have shed workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Other have had to fully liquidate...NPR From ACM Careers | April 22, 2020
Girls start out with the same math abilities as boys, according to a study of 104 children ages 3 to 10 that found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and...NPR From ACM Careers | November 8, 2019
Two weeks ago, MIT's David Autor gave the prestigious Richard T. Ely lecture at the annual meeting of American economists in Atlanta. Introduced by the former chair...NPR From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2019
In 2003, Jay Siegel was up for a new challenge. Siegel was a tenured professor of chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, but he took a job at the...NPR From ACM Careers | November 27, 2018
A year ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping stood before the 19th Communist Party Congress and laid out his ambitious plan for China to become a world leader by 2025...NPR From ACM Careers | October 9, 2018
When an employer sets out to recruit young people for a certain job, is it discriminating against older job seekers in a way that breaks the law? That question...NPR From ACM Careers | August 16, 2018
Cybercrime is expanding beyond computers and cellphones. Cars, washers and dryers, and even toasters are going online—an evolution of technology called the ...NPR From ACM Opinion | February 23, 2018
In 1984, two men were thinking a lot about the Internet. One of them invented it. The other is an artist who would see its impact on society with uncanny prescience...NPR From ACM Opinion | February 20, 2018
In 2005, shortly after earning a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering, Sam Cape was looking for work online when he came across a cryptic help...NPR From ACM News | October 25, 2017
Galloping Ghost, one of the largest video-game arcades in the world, sits in an unassuming, single story brick building in Brookfield, Ill., a suburb of Chicago...NPR From ACM Careers | September 26, 2017
A Google engineer who got fired over a controversial memo that criticized the company's diversity policies said that there might be biological reasons there are...NPR From ACM Careers | August 14, 2017
When I started my career at The Washington Post in the late 1990s, the newsroom wore a dusty, outdated look as if it were paying homage to its legendary past.
NPR From ACM Careers | June 13, 2017