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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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A new study identifies a main culprit for the underrepresentation of women in undergraduate computer science and engineering programs: inaccurate stereotypes depicting...niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | February 13, 2015
Educational researchers have developed a system that crowdsources the annotation of instructional videos to increase their value. MIT News From ACM Careers | February 11, 2015
Yasutaka Furukawa thinks there's a better way to find your way around a large building than with a printed, one-dimensional map. And he's getting a chance to make...Washington University in St. Louis From ACM Careers | February 11, 2015
Two Washington state legislators have recently introduced a bill that would allow computer science class (e.g., programming) to effectively count as a foreign language...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | February 10, 2015
A team of Missouri S&T researchers has developed an app that tracks classroom attendance using a smartphone camera.Missouri niversity of Science and Technology From ACM Careers | February 9, 2015
To publish the most papers, labs should ideally have 10 to 15 members, according to a much-discussed study in PeerJ PrePrints.Nature From ACM Careers | February 6, 2015
With NSF support, Iowa State University is making a version of ISEAGE (the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment) software technology available...Iowa State University From ACM Careers | February 5, 2015
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...The Guardian From ACM News | February 4, 2015
With its recent investment in Stack Exchange, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz now counts three significant companies in its portfolio that serve the broad and...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.Nature From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Vanishing web pages make revisiting original references more difficult and undermine the long-term integrity of online scholarly records.Los Alamos National Laboratory From ACM Careers | January 29, 2015
STEM schools vary in many ways, but they share eight major common elements, according to a study of 23 U.S.-based STEM schools conducted by the University of Chicago's...niversity of Chicago From ACM Careers | January 28, 2015
On a campus notable for tight security and secret offices, Building 92 is a rare beacon of openness. Guests can enter without a Microsoft ID and browse corporate...Wired From ACM Careers | January 22, 2015
Have you ever thought about why doorknobs are positioned at around two-fifths of the door's height, instead of right in the middle? Or why a washing machine is...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2015
I remember battling sleepiness as I slouched in a large lecture hall, squinting to make out the writing on the blackboard during my freshman introductory physics...Scientific American From ACM Careers | January 22, 2015
If you think the latest enterprise and consumer network and computer technologies rolling into your data center and being snuck into your offices by end users are...Network World From ACM News | January 21, 2015