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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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MIT Professor Donald Sadoway's radical rethinking of electricity storage could revitalize renewable-power technologies.MIT News Office From ACM Careers | April 23, 2012
In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and...Wired From ACM News | April 19, 2012
Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...The New York Times From ACM News | April 17, 2012
While many of the boys in Idan Yahya's high school class were buffing up and preparing themselves for selection into elite combat units, this gawky teenager was...Wired From ACM News | April 12, 2012
University of Illinois at Chicago assistant professor Wenjing Rao has won a National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career award that she will use to explore...niversity of Illinois at Chicago From ACM Careers | April 11, 2012
The technological hurdles to embracing big data are well-known at this point—McKinsey & Co. predicted a shortage of nearly 200,000 skilled data analysts by 2018—but...GigaOm From ACM Careers | March 30, 2012
AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, "I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart." That, he figured, would help him "discover things like time machines, robots...The New York Times From ACM News | March 26, 2012
One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students...NASA From ACM Careers | March 23, 2012
Six research teams have begun using the first phase of the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer to study some of the most challenging problems in science...National Center for Supercomputing Applications From ACM Careers | March 23, 2012
Sixty-six national and international high school teams will take their robots to the courts this weekend to compete in the 21st season of the Los Angeles regional...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | March 16, 2012
A team of physicists from Vanderbilt University report that they have nailed down the source of the interference inhibiting the rapid flow of electrons through...Vanderbilt niversity From ACM Careers | March 14, 2012
Andy Hertzfeld was ready to retire back in 2009, following a momentous 30-year plus career where he worked side by side with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to design...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2012
Basketball dominates the American sports landscape in March. So perhaps it’s fitting that the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, held last week...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 9, 2012
The Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge, sponsored by DARPA and NASA, and run by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory, TopCoder, and Aurora Flight Sciences...Zero Robotics From ACM Careers | March 7, 2012
The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...Slate From ACM News | March 7, 2012
As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...Wired From ACM Careers | March 7, 2012
The Gordon supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center has begun helping national academic researchers as well as industry and government agencies perform...niversity of California, San Diego From ACM Careers | March 6, 2012
Firms that collect and enforce patents of dubious value—with no intention of creating the invention described in those patents—are the scourge of innovators everywhere...Slate From ACM Careers | March 2, 2012