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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
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
Computer code written by scientists forms the basis of an increasing number of studies across many fields—and an increasing number of papers that report the results...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2018
A map showing how mobile-phone use might be restricted because of a giant radio telescope in South Africa has angered people who will live near the instrument—deepening...Nature From ACM Careers | November 20, 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
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
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...Nature From ACM News | June 1, 2016
A giant database on the health risks of nearly 10,000 chemicals will make it easier to predict the toxicity of tens of thousands of consumer products for which...Nature From ACM Careers | February 12, 2016
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...Nature From ACM News | September 24, 2015
"Crap!" That was the first word out of Kevin Esvelt’s mouth as he scanned a paper1 published inScience last March.Nature From ACM News | August 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
The U.S. government is considering policy changes that could dramatically affect how researchers handle equipment and information that have national-security implications...Nature From ACM Careers | June 17, 2015
In an unusual twist on biometrics research, US computer scientists have joined with law-enforcement officials to find new ways to automatically detect tattoos on...Nature From ACM News | June 9, 2015
Genetic testing has entered a new realm, with the ability to read a person's genetic code and predict how it will affect his or her health.Nature From ACM Careers | February 23, 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
When asked what he likes best about working for Google, physicist John Martinis does not mention the famous massage chairs in the hallways, or the free snacks available...Nature From ACM News | December 3, 2014
For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world...Nature From ACM News | November 26, 2014