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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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If Douglas MacArthur or Ulysses S. Grant went to the U.S. Military Academy today, they might be testing their defensive skills hunched in front of a computer screen...The Associated Press From ACM Careers | April 10, 2014
Prof Stuart Parkin developed a type of data-reading head capable of detecting weaker and smaller signals than had previously been possible.BBC News From ACM News | April 10, 2014
As gadgets get smaller, and mobile manufacturers find new ways to shrink their devices to fit on a user's wrist, people like Steve Matteson are focused on keeping...CNET From ACM Opinion | April 9, 2014
When he was in elementary school, Scott Aaronson, like many mathematically precocious kids of his generation, dreamed of making his own video games.MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2014
Though smartphone plans seem to only be growing more expensive, it may not feel like the quality and speed of service has followed suit.Smithsonian magazine From ACM Careers | April 4, 2014
Forty years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA open sourced the software code that ran the guidance systems on the lunar module.Wired From ACM News | April 3, 2014
One recent morning, while contemplating writing this column, I scrolled through thousands and thousands of listings for mundane microgigs on Mechanical Turk, or...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2014
Enigma machines have captivated everyone from legendary code breaker Alan Turing and the dedicated cryptographers from England's Bletchley Park to historians and...CNET From ACM News | March 31, 2014
If you write a book or a song, you can get copyright protection for it. If you invent a pill or a better mousetrap, you can patent it.The Washington Post From ACM News | March 31, 2014
For the past few weeks the world's attention has been focussed on the lost Malaysia Airlines plane and its 239 passengers and crew that has apparently crashed in...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2014
When Butler fell a precious few inches short of winning a national championship in 2010, its players took the court during that season believing they were the most...The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 25, 2014
It's an invention that would make TV's secret agent MacGyver proud: a fully functional microscope that can be assembled from folded paper and a tiny bead of glass...Stanford News From ACM Careers | March 24, 2014