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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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With little fanfare, urban areas have become overgrown by a tangle of sensors: cameras unobtrusively snapping pictures at traffic lights, microphones secretly triangulating...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | October 8, 2014
Smartphones, tablets and other gadgets aren't just changing the way we live and work. They are shaking up Silicon Valley's balance of power and splitting up businesses...The Associated Press From ACM Careers | October 8, 2014
When a worried 5-year-old named Timur asked Chris Hadfield in September whether the Voyager 1 satellite—now careening through Deep Space 11 billion miles from Earth...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | October 7, 2014
The story of how the digital age came to be involves a cast of more than 40 people, ranging from a 19th century English countess to California hippies.NPR From ACM Opinion | October 7, 2014
The fact that Edvard and May-Britt Moser have collaborated for 30 years—and been married for 28—has done nothing to dull their passion for the brain.Nature From ACM Careers | October 6, 2014
As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted.The Associated Press From ACM Careers | October 6, 2014
A coding scheme for interactive communication developed at MIT is the first to meet three classical measures of evaluation, its developers say.MIT News From ACM Careers | October 2, 2014
Desperate to attract tech-savvy workers, one company is turning to an unlikely talent source: high school.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | October 2, 2014
The ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data is rapidly transforming science, industry and everyday life, but what we have seen so far is likely just...The National Science Foundation From ACM Careers | October 2, 2014
Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware...Fortune From ACM Careers | October 1, 2014
On the second day of March 1950, Helen Keller showed up at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics. There, she encountered Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | September 24, 2014
Jonathan Mosen, who has been blind since birth, spent his evening snapping photos of packages in the mail, his son's school report and labels on bottles in the...Reuters From ACM Careers | September 23, 2014
Change is coming to the institute that has been at the heart of China's scientific development since the communist state began.Nature From ACM Careers | September 23, 2014
Virtual reality is virtually here—although its first incarnation will come with short battery life, images that do not quite track eye movements and a tendency...The New York Times From ACM News | September 23, 2014
Researchers have developed a search algorithm that improves a robot's ability to find and navigate to UHF RFID-tagged objects located throughout a home.Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | September 23, 2014
Against the odds, the Des Moines Register has just become one of the first newspapers to move into virtual reality.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | September 22, 2014