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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 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
Choong-am Dojang is far from a typical Korean school. Its best pupils will never study history or math, nor will they receive traditional high-school diplomas.The New Yorker From ACM Careers | March 15, 2016
In late October, when the Apple TV was relaunched, Bandit’s Shark Showdown was among the first apps designed for the platform.The New Yorker From ACM Careers | December 2, 2015
Two years ago, Sean Murray, a video-game developer from the town of Guildford, outside London, announced an ambitious game that he had been working on in secrecy...The New Yorker From ACM News | May 15, 2015
"Chappie," the highest-grossing movie in America last weekend, is, to put it mildly, not a great film; the critics have given it a twenty-nine on Rotten Tomatoes...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2015
Last year, in a lab at the University of Barcelona, an anonymous woman was fitted with headphones, a microphone, a head-mounted virtual-reality display, a motion...The New Yorker From ACM News | February 24, 2015
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...The New Yorker From ACM News | December 15, 2014
On a Saturday afternoon earlier this summer, dozens of hackers, journalists, and activists sat on the floor in a darkened hallway of the Pennsylvania Hotel in Midtown...The New Yorker From ACM News | November 3, 2014
"Learn to Code!" This imperative to program seems to be everywhere these days. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg recently donated ten million dollars to Code.org,...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2014
It was a mild October day in Hollywood, but a trace of artificial snow remained on the ground as Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, at...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | February 19, 2014
"It’s not as crazy as it seemed at the beginning," Charles Elachi, the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Washington Post, about NASA's latest...The New Yorker From ACM News | September 18, 2013