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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 few top women in technology share how their dads inspired them to become programmers, engineers, and entrepreneurs — and how fathers today can follow suit.Forbes From ACM Careers | June 17, 2016
A new study proposes that negative group dynamics of teamwork and internships may deter many women in the engineering profession.MIT News From ACM Careers | June 15, 2016
Drugs that act by modifying a patient’s genes are close to approval in the United States, and one is already available in Europe. The developments mark a triumph...Nature From ACM Careers | June 15, 2016
Apart from the treadmill desk, Pieter Dorrestein's office at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is unremarkable: there is a circular table with chairs...Nature From ACM Careers | June 14, 2016
As scores of college graduates hit the job market this spring, their employment prospects are more promising than those of last year's graduating class. In particular...Network World From ACM Careers | June 14, 2016
Argonne National Laboratory Distinguished Fellow Paul Messina discusses the National Strategic Computing Initiative to pave the road toward an exascale computing...Argonne National Laboratory From ACM Careers | June 13, 2016
At an April meetup organized by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), a Facebook researcher named Michael Bailey showed his peers how somebody...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 10, 2016
The next-generation factory worker isn't a robot, but a tech-augmented human—a kind of "Iron Man" outfitted with performance-enhancing gear.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | June 9, 2016
On Tuesday, I listened to eight teams of Stanford students present their solutions to current national security problems on the final day of H4D: Hacking for Defense...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Careers | June 9, 2016
Silicon Valley is the new Rome. As in the time of Caesar, the world is grappling with an advanced city-state dominating much of the planet, injecting its technology...Newsweek From ACM Careers | June 9, 2016
Donald Trump says that if he becomes president, he will "get Apple to start making their computers and their iPhones on our land, not in China." Bernie Sanders...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2016
They replaced horses, didn't they? That's how the late, great economist Wassily Leontief responded 35 years ago to those who argued technology would never really...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2016
One of the great unsung heroes of 20th century science was a mathematician and engineer at the famous Bell Laboratories in New Jersey called Claude Shannon.Technology Review From ACM News | June 8, 2016
Digital currency Bitcoin is variously promoted as an alternative to gold, a good way to make international transfers, or the future of e-commerce. New research...Technology Review From ACM Careers | June 8, 2016
The central bank of Bangladesh was the victim of one of the biggest bank heists of all time in February, when thieves made off with $81 million.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | June 6, 2016
Proposals for a large public-private initiative to synthesize an entire human genome from scratch—an effort that could take a decade and require billions of dollars...Nature From ACM News | June 2, 2016
Courses that engage college students in conducting scientific research early on can dramatically increase students' odds of completing a STEM degree, a new study...niversity of Texas at Austin From ACM Careers | June 2, 2016
When archivists at California's Stanford University received the collected papers of the late palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 2004, they knew right away they...Nature From ACM News | June 1, 2016