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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
On the day (perhaps not long from now) when the entire internet crashes, no one will be able to say that we didn’t see it coming.Slate From ACM Opinion | October 26, 2016
Diagrams of simple machines—a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever—appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (science, technology, engineering, and...Slate From ACM Careers | November 24, 2015
As any historian, psychologist, sociologist, or scientist will tell you, the truth of an idea has very little to do with how fast it spreads and how well it's believed...Slate From ACM Opinion | June 2, 2014
It's nearly impossible to get into MIT, very expensive to enroll there, and exceedingly hard to graduate, which are some of the reasons why MIT degrees are so coveted...Slate From ACM Careers | September 20, 2013
Images of tech entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are continually thrown at us by politicians, economists, and the media.Slate From ACM Opinion | September 3, 2013
Georgia Institute of Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It's offering a new master's degree in computer...Slate From ACM Careers | July 24, 2013
Recently, the FBI has been attacking the "going dark" problem—that is, its inability to read all electronic communications—from both legal and technological angles...Slate From ACM Opinion | May 28, 2013
Harvard faculty members responded with shock after the Boston Globe revealed that theuniversity’s administration had searched 16 faculty deans’ email accounts to...Slate From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2013
Stacey Mulcahy, who is currently a lead developer at the digital creative agency Big Spaceship, has been in the tech industry since 2001.Slate From ACM Careers | February 13, 2013
For the past few months, some of the world's leading cryptographers have been keeping a closely guarded secret about a pioneering new invention.Slate From ACM Careers | February 12, 2013
One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.Slate From ACM Opinion | February 6, 2013
"The speed of light in a vacuum used to be about 35 mph. Then Jeff Dean spent a weekend optimizing physics."—Jeff Dean FactsSlate From ACM News | January 28, 2013
Behind computer screens from France to Fort Worth, Texas, elite hackers hunt for security vulnerabilities worth thousands of dollars on a secretive unregulated...Slate From ACM News | January 17, 2013
According to law enforcement agencies, the rising popularity of Internet chat services like Skype has made it difficult to eavesdrop on suspects' communications...Slate From ACM Careers | November 19, 2012
"What is best in life? Is it to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women? Well, that's a pretty good start....Slate From ACM Careers | August 3, 2012
One evening in the spring of 1999, Marissa Mayer got a recruiting email from a tiny search company. "I was in a long-distance relationship at the time, so I was...Slate From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2012