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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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When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...Nature From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016
The next generation of particle-collider experiments will feature some of the world's most advanced thinking machines, if links now being forged between particle...Nature From ACM News | December 1, 2015
Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
In his 1942 short story 'Runaround', science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov introduced the Three Laws of Robotics—engineering safeguards and built-in ethical principles...Nature From ACM News | July 2, 2015
Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...Nature From ACM News | March 9, 2015
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...Nature From ACM News | March 5, 2015
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, U.K., in electric shuttles with no one's hands on the steering wheel—or any steering wheel at...Nature From ACM News | February 9, 2015
Delays and funding problems are threatening to push back the planned launch of ExoMars, a European and Russian rover designed to search for life on the red planet...Nature From ACM Careers | August 5, 2014
The European Union's high-profile, €1-billion Human Brain Project, launched last October, has come under fire from neuroscientists, who claim that poor management...Nature From ACM News | July 9, 2014
As US science agencies firm up plans for a national ten-year neuroscience initiative, California is launching an ambitious project of its own.Nature From ACM Careers | June 24, 2014
A working group of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) presented a ten-year plan for the agency's portion of a major neuroscience initiative announced last...Nature From ACM News | June 11, 2014
NASA's Curiosity rover is in the prime of its life, exploring the rocks, soil and air of Mars. But the agency is already planning its successor—and this time, the...Nature From ACM News | May 14, 2014
Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.Nature From ACM News | May 2, 2014
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...Nature From ACM News | March 11, 2014
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...Nature From ACM Opinion | December 13, 2013
Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated on the screen of a computer that is trying to decode...Nature From ACM News | October 23, 2013
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues caused mice to recall...Nature From ACM Careers | August 15, 2013