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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
The US mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, whose life spanned the tumultuous, technologically explosive twentieth century, is often called the...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 14, 2017
Seven years ago, a cover of The Economist showed Barack Obama, head down on a Louisiana beach in front of an oil rig—the picture of lonely despair.
Nature From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2017
In the world's wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving...Nature From ACM Careers | June 6, 2017
Most research institutions are essentially collections of independent laboratories, each run by principal investigators who head a team of trainees.
Nature From ACM Careers | May 18, 2017
Advances in technology pose huge challenges for jobs. Productivity levels have never been higher in the United States, for example, but income for the bottom 50...Nature From ACM Opinion | April 14, 2017
A research subject watches a brush slowly stroking a rubber hand on a table in front of her, while her own hand—hidden from view—experiences the same stimulation...Nature From ACM Careers | April 5, 2017
Out of town for the US 4 July holiday, Kyle Turner got news that no lab manager wants to hear: his freezer was dying.
Nature From ACM Careers | February 1, 2017
US President Donald Trump has met with two rumoured front-runners for the role of White House science adviser.
Nature From ACM Careers | January 24, 2017
Faced with a changing world order and buffeted by a slew of political crises and terrorist attacks, the historically civilian European Union is bolstering its military...Nature From ACM Careers | December 23, 2016
One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...Nature From ACM Careers | December 12, 2016
When crop engineers from around the world gathered in London in late October, their research goals were ambitious: to make rice that uses water more efficiently...Nature From ACM Careers | November 3, 2016
This week, the White House published its report on the future of artificial intelligence (AI)—a product of four workshops held between May and July 2016 in Seattle...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 13, 2016
Five months after announcing its intentions to gather genome sequences from 2 million people, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has selected geneticist David Goldstein...Nature From ACM Opinion | September 30, 2016
The European Commission has announced long-awaited plans to make it easier for researchers to harvest facts and data from research papers—by freeing the computer...Nature From ACM Careers | September 20, 2016
Many scientists worry over the reproducibility of wet-lab experiments, but data scientist Victoria Stodden's focus is on how to validate computational research:...Nature From ACM Opinion | September 15, 2016
Blue spires seem to pop out of the photograph in one place; a patch of bushy forms of pinkish-purple in another.Nature From ACM Careers | September 1, 2016
Most of the world's mathematicians fall into just 24 scientific 'families', one of which dates back to the fifteenth century.Nature From ACM Careers | August 26, 2016