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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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A branch of the National Academy of Sciences reported Wednesday that federal safety regulators lack the expertise to monitor vehicles with increasingly sophisticated...The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 19, 2012
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 16, 2012
Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq.The New York Times From ACM News | January 5, 2012
Why can't Americans tap into the ingenuity that put men on the moon, created the Internet, and sequenced the human genome to revitalize our economy?The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 10, 2011
The number of college freshmen interested in majoring in a STEM field on the rise. But roughly 40 percent end up switching to other subjects or failing to get...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 4, 2011
A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, according to two researchers at the...The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 24, 2011
Schools nationwide have rushed to supply their classrooms with computers. But the contrarian point of view can be found at the epicenter of the tech economy,...The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 24, 2011
In the chess match to determine which university will get a chance to build a graduate school of applied sciences on public land in New York City, Stanford is...The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 11, 2011
Harvard and Ohio State are not going to disappear any time soon. But a host of new online enterprises are making earning a college degree cheaper, faster, and...The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 26, 2011
If you have a child entering grade school this fall, file away just one number with all those back-to-school forms: 65 percent. Chances are just that good that...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | August 11, 2011
Why are the Feds hobnobbing with hackers? Defcon, a convention of computer hackers here, was crawling with federal agents on Friday. They smiled, shook hands,...The New York Times From ACM News | August 6, 2011
After a decade of decreases, computer science programs are experiencing a resurgence. Educators and technologists say the increase is directly related to the popularity...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | June 13, 2011
Although technology hubs such as Silicon Valley boast that they are open to good ideas irrespective of the age, educational level, or station in life of the inventor...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 19, 2010
U.S. companies—and their engineers—are being drawn to China more and more as the country develops a high-tech economy that increasingly competes directly with the...The New York Times From ACM News | March 18, 2010
Employment at the top 10 Silicon Valley companies declined for Hispanics, blacks, and women for the decade ending in 2005, according to a San Jose Mercury News...The New York Times Online From ACM TechNews | February 19, 2010
U.S. colleges are adding courses and specialized degrees in the once-exotic field of cybersecurity to try to meet the growing demands for computer security skills...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | January 8, 2010
Educators and technologists say both the image of computing work and computer science education in high schools need to change to fill what are expected to be the...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | December 21, 2009
When I was about 10 years old, my father bought a Radio Shack-brand TRS Model III computer in order to track billing. Within a few months, I had moved it into my... The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 16, 2009
PayScale, a site that collects data on salaries for different professions, recently released an updated data set from over 1.2 million users on the salaries of...The New York Times From ACM CareerNews | July 20, 2009
As employment headlines go from grim to grimmer, it’s appropriate that one job category with expanding demand involves helping people avoid reality. Designers of...The New York Times From ACM Careers | June 15, 2009