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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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For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the...Technology Review From ACM News | April 14, 2015
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2015
During a famous scene in Star Wars, Princess Leia has R2D2 play a holographic video message in midair in which she pleads for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the near...Technology Review From ACM News | February 25, 2015
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.Technology Review From ACM News | February 20, 2015
Not many years ago, Jane Yang, a 26-year-old civil servant in Beijing, paid her landlord in three-month installments with a stack of 100-yuan notes.Technology Review From ACM Careers | January 29, 2015
A scanner the size of an iPhone that you could hold up to a person’s chest and see a vivid, moving, 3-D image of what’s inside is being developed by entrepreneur...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 3, 2014
After decades of repeated reinvention, the silicon transistor is starting to show its age, and the industry is hunting for alternatives.Technology Review From ACM News | October 28, 2014
If you've ever watched soccer, you'll know of the subtle differences in tactics and formation between different teams.Technology Review From ACM News | September 17, 2014
Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...Technology Review From ACM News | August 22, 2014
In the eight years since Amazon.com rolled out its cloud-computing business, Amazon Web Services, this has grown from a side project that took advantage of the...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 24, 2014
"In the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight AF 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic...Technology Review From ACM News | May 28, 2014
In less than 60 days, Brazil will begin hosting soccer's 2014 World Cup, even though workers are still hurrying to pour concrete at three unfinished stadiums.MIT Technology Review From ACM News | April 16, 2014
This year's winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced yesterday as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 19, 2014
Dropbox, the popular cloud storage system that lets people drag files to an icon that puts that data in the cloud and sync new versions across multiple devicesHiding...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 6, 2014
Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore's Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it's held true in the decades since.Technology Review From ACM Opinion | November 25, 2013
A startup spun out of Stanford says it has solved an age-old problem in radio communications with a new circuit and algorithm that allow data to be sent and received...Technology Review From ACM News | October 31, 2013