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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
Despite some high-profile setbacks, the field of superconductivity is enjoying something of a renaissance, researchers say.
Nature From ACM Careers | November 20, 2023
Colleges are starting the process of educating future engineers in topics such as how quantum computing hardware components work and how to write quantum computing...Nature From ACM TechNews | November 15, 2023
A system based on Google DeepMind's AlphaZero AI created algorithms that, when translated into the standard programming language C++, can sort data up to three...Nature From ACM Careers | June 8, 2023
Even scientists who have made quantum computers their life's work say they can't do anything useful — yet. "They're all terrible," says University of Sussex physicist...Nature From ACM Careers | May 26, 2023
OpenAI's ChatGPT and DeepMind's AlphaCode can now produce meaningful lines of code, but software engineers shouldn't switch careers quite yet.
Nature From ACM Careers | December 9, 2022
Researchers Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan at Princeton University have sounded an alarm about what they call a "brewing reproducibility crisis" in machine-learning...Nature From ACM Careers | July 27, 2022
The Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge asked scientists to find and re-execute old code written for computationally driven papers published ten or more years ago...Nature From ACM Careers | August 26, 2020
Planetary scientists are angry about NASA's decision to jettison a key instrument from its upcoming mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.
Nature From ACM Careers | March 20, 2019
Julia Stewart Lowndes studied metre-long Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), tagging them to track their dives, as a graduate student at Stanford University in California...Nature From ACM News | August 23, 2018
In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...Nature From ACM News | July 30, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018
Machine-learning software trained on masses of chemical-safety data is so good at predicting some kinds of toxicity that it now rivals—and sometimes outperforms—expensive...Nature From ACM News | July 12, 2018
One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork...Nature From ACM News | June 19, 2018
Samapriya Roy remembers when it would take him up to an hour to download a single 1-gigabyte image taken by the Landsat Earth-imaging satellites.
Nature From ACM Careers | June 13, 2018
From time to time over the past few years, I've politely refused requests to referee an article on the grounds that it lacks enough information for me to check...Nature From ACM Opinion | May 25, 2018