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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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The e-mails of the celebrated programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language...The New Yorker From ACM Careers | October 1, 2018
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
One day in the summer of 2003, Shawn Carpenter, a security analyst in New Mexico, went to Florida on a secret mission. Carpenter, then thirty-five, worked at Sandia...The New Yorker From ACM Careers | May 4, 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
There are two equally valid, yet seemingly incompatible, ways of viewing Apple Computer's relationship with Ireland.The New Yorker From ACM Careers | September 7, 2016
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
In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month...The New Yorker From ACM News | December 10, 2014
On July 23rd, 1969, Geoffrey Crowther addressed the inaugural meeting of the Open University, a British institution that had just been created to provide an alternative...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | November 7, 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
From the garden terrace of a sixth-floor walkup on a quiet Berlin street, there was a clear view to the TV Tower, in Alexanderplatz.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 16, 2014
Last month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the United States was charging members of the Chinese military with economic espionage.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2014
For more than a year now, tens of millions of Americans have found time each day to devote themselves to an essential task: swiping at their phones and tablets...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | March 10, 2014
Last September, the Times reported that Voyager 1, the hardy spacecraft launched in 1977, had exited the solar system and entered the interstellar void.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014