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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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Ben Horowitz may have the skeleton key to the decimation—sorry, transformation—of our economic and political lives.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 10, 2013
To the delight of American satellite makers, communications satellites—which orbit Earth to relay phone calls, link ships to shore and broadcast television programs—will...The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 4, 2013
The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.The New York Times From ACM News | January 3, 2013
Nearly three years after the first iPad was introduced, the tablet has come a long way. Now there are plenty of smaller, cheaper tablets that are pretty powerful...The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 21, 2012
In policy circles, problems that are mind-bogglingly difficult or impossible to solve, like global warming, are formally termed "wicked."The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 10, 2012
There is plenty of debate about just how much Big Data analytics can help businesses make smarter decisions to increase sales and cut costs. Yet there seems to...The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 3, 2012
Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 21, 2012
Rachel Crosby speaks about her BlackBerry phone the way someone might speak of an embarrassing relative. The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 16, 2012
Dr. Alvin Rajkomar was doing rounds with his team at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center when he came upon a puzzling case: a frail, elderly...The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 12, 2012
Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 1, 2012
In the rising light of a mid-September morning, the CSAV Pyrenees, a blue-water freighter sailing out of Suape Port in Brazil, was lashed to its lines at BerthPort...The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 28, 2012
Matt Heverly, 36, started a recent workday as any young father might: up at 5:30, gulping coffee, fixing a bottle for the baby. The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 10, 2012
In recent years, Silicon Valley seems to have forgotten about silicon. It’s been about dot-coms, Web advertising, social networking, and apps for smartphones.The New York Times From ACM News | August 28, 2012
Everyone, it seems, has an app or a genius idea for one. Credit the lackluster job market plus facile tools and technology—no Ph.D. in programming required—for...The New York Times From ACM Careers | July 20, 2012
Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.The New York Times From ACM News | July 10, 2012
Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...The New York Times From ACM News | April 17, 2012