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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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When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.The New York Times From ACM News | January 23, 2012
Intel application engineer Travis Bonifield has been working closely with Hawking to communicate with the world for a decade.Intel Free Press From ACM Opinion | January 10, 2012
After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian...The Los Angeles Times From ACM News | January 3, 2012
Rex Walheim is an astronaut. He's gone to space three times, including on the last flight of the space shuttle. He has spent an accumulated 36 hours outside the...BoingBoing From ACM Careers | December 16, 2011
"Yes! We have elegance!" says a student from the University of Waterloo. Then he pauses, and his shoulders slump.Wired From ACM Careers | December 5, 2011
For a decade, Target outsourced its website operations to Amazon.com. The Minneapolis retail giant began preparing two years ago to take control of the site when...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 5, 2011
Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | November 28, 2011
Peter Guggenheim has worked so long at Stuart Electronics that his feet have worn holes through two layers of tile and an inch of plywood, down to the floorboards...The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 31, 2011
With a cutting-edge solar car, an advanced strategy and an intrepid 16-student race crew, the University of Michigan's national champion solar car team is ready...niversity of Michigan From ACM Careers | October 12, 2011
Both Tim Willits and Matt Hooper got their start in game design as fans, creating maps for id Software games like Doom and Quake. Now, as the studio celebrates...Arstechnica From ACM News | October 5, 2011
Virginia Commonwealth University has received two grants to support work on energy-efficient computing devices that pack more processing power in a chip and potentially...Virginia Commonwealth University From ACM Careers | September 6, 2011
New experimental computer chips modeled on nervous systems are aimed at creating computers that can learn through experience, find correlations, create hypotheses...University of California, Merced From ACM Careers | August 18, 2011
Ghostwriting, plagiarizing or faking results is so rampant in Chinese academia that some experts worry it could hinder China's efforts to become a leader in science...The Associated Press From ACM News | April 12, 2010
As employment headlines go from grim to grimmer, it’s appropriate that one job category with expanding demand involves helping people avoid reality. Designers of...The New York Times From ACM Careers | June 15, 2009
The U.S. government’s urgent push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts. The...The New York Times From ACM News | June 1, 2009
Georgia Institute of Technology has required every undergraduate on campus to take a course in computing. Here are the lessons learned from the practice, now...Mark Guzdial From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2009
The surpassing of petaflop speeds by a new breed of supercomputers could facilitate a profound scientific transformation by bringing simulation to the cutting edge...Wired From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2008