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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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On June 23, 1988—a blisteringly hot day in Washington, D.C.—James Hansen told a Senate committee that "the greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our...The New Yorker From ACM Careers | June 21, 2018
"Whenever I teach a security class, it happens that there is something going on in the news cycle that ties into it," Doug Tygar, a computer-science professor at...The New Yorker From ACM Careers | November 30, 2017
When David Stinson finished high school, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1977, the first thing he did was get a job building houses.
The New Yorker From ACM Careers | October 17, 2017
One night in July, 1964, the logician Lotfi Zadeh found himself alone in his parents' New York apartment, his dinner plans cancelled.
The New Yorker From ACM Careers | September 20, 2017
We inhabit a small planet orbiting a medium-sized star about two-thirds of the way out from the center of the Milky Way galaxy—around where Track 2 on an LP record...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | August 25, 2017
"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2017
Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island.
The New Yorker From ACM News | December 28, 2016
Earlier this month, on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver skewered media companies' desperate search for clicks.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | August 26, 2016
On a warm evening in 2014, Attila Szantner, a Hungarian Web entrepreneur, and his friend Bernard Revaz, a Swiss physics researcher, sat on a balcony in Geneva and...The New Yorker From ACM Careers | June 22, 2016
The recipe for peach Melba is thought to date back to 1893, when Nellie Melba and Auguste Escoffier were rubbing elbows at the Savoy Hotel, in London.The New Yorker From ACM Careers | May 11, 2016
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...The New Yorker From ACM News | May 2, 2016