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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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Alphabet Inc.'s Google is using its Android mobile operating system and algorithmic smarts to predict users' wants and needs.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | January 14, 2016
One of the most exciting parts of data science is that it can be applied to many domains of knowledge, given our newfound ability to gather valuable data on almost...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 4, 2016
The Federal Trade Commission has appointed a leading Internet privacy and security expert as its new chief technologist, amid a growing concern for consumer protections...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | December 9, 2015
A new center to study the implications of artificial intelligence and try to influence its ethical development has been established at the U.K.'s Cambridge University...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | December 3, 2015
Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | October 7, 2015
When Jeff Cohen was getting ready to meet his OkCupid date for drinks in Manhattan, he started to have second thoughts as he reread the glaring grammatical error...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | October 5, 2015
Farmers and entrepreneurs are starting to compete with agribusiness giants over the newest commodity being harvested on U.S. farms—one measured in bytes, not bushels...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | September 1, 2015
Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | August 20, 2015
"Why shouldn't people be able to teleport wherever they want?" asks Palmer Luckey, the 22-year-old founder of Oculus VR, the virtual-reality company that Facebook...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2015
At his home in New York, hotelier and real-estate developer Ian Schrager has a "smart-home" system that allows him to remotely control the lighting, window shades...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | August 6, 2015
The leather-bound diaries of a 19th-century high-school principal in southwestern India are helping change how archivists around the world handle email.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 30, 2015
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 22, 2015
When Facebook Inc. engineers needed security software to monitor the thousands of Apple Inc. Mac laptops, they couldn't find what they needed.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 21, 2015
Before Max Krohn, the OkCupid co-founder, played online matchmaker, he had a far-less-romantic interest in cryptography. But he couldn't see a way to make a living...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 16, 2015
In the past decade, Moxie Marlinspike has squatted on an abandoned island, toured the U.S. by hopping trains, he says, and earned the enmity of government officials...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 10, 2015