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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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Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare's Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes in question—and...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 22, 2019
You may not have a real Porsche in your driveway, but augmented reality will now let you plonk a virtual one there using a smartphone—and take it for a simulated...Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 28, 2018
Michael Cook, a 30-year-old senior research fellow at the University of Falmouth, has built an AI capable of imagining new video games from scratch.
Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 29, 2017
When Brandon Araki arrived at MIT in 2015 as a master's candidate in mechanical engineering, he brought along the picobug, a tiny robot that can fly, crawl, and...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 1, 2017
In 1977, four recent MIT graduates who'd met at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science used the lab's PDP-10 mainframe to develop a computer game that captivated...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 22, 2017
John Urschel is a doctoral candidate in math at MIT and an offensive lineman with the NFL's Baltimore Ravens.
Technology Review From ACM Careers | June 27, 2017
One afternoon in December, Kevin Geiger was giving one of his regular talks about storytelling in virtual reality.
Technology Review From ACM Careers | January 5, 2017
Apple is hiring a rising star in the world of deep learning to serve as its first director of AI research. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, an associate professor at Carnegie...Technology Review From ACM Careers | October 18, 2016
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...Technology Review From ACM News | January 13, 2016
In a windowless office on a tiny San Francisco side street, Noah Kraft is making me hear things in a way I’ve never heard them before.Technology Review From ACM Careers | August 17, 2015
If you visit Softbank's flagship store in downtown Tokyo, you may be greeted by a charming, slightly manic new member of the staff: a gleaming white humanoid robot...Technology Review From ACM Careers | July 24, 2015
It's testament to the speed at which the current crop of virtual-reality headsets are evolving that newcomer Fove is able to make its competitors seem, if not outdated...Technology Review From ACM Careers | June 23, 2015
A Canadian startup is working to make monsters, fish, and other creatures seem to come alive inside a tabletop box.Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 27, 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
A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 15, 2014
Research vice presidents at some computing giants, such as Microsoft and IBM, rule over divisions housed in dedicated facilities carefully insulated from the rat...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2014
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...Technology Review From ACM Careers | March 10, 2014
There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must do to turn itself around, but critics and company leaders at least agree on one thing...Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 11, 2014
Google's $2.9 billion sale of Motorola Mobility to Chinese PC maker Lenovo might seem like lousy business, given Google's $12.5 billion purchase in 2012 and losses...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2014