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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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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the avant-garde research and development arm of the Department of Defense—perhaps best known for its central...Threatpost From ACM Careers | December 4, 2012
Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | December 3, 2012
The ICT industry is in the midst of a once every 20-25 years shift to a new technology platform for growth and innovation. We call it the 3rd Platform, built on...IDC From ACM Careers | November 30, 2012
It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.Wired From ACM Careers | November 28, 2012
Pat Hickey, who covered his first Montreal Canadiens game in 1968 for the now-defunct Montreal Star, and who has chronicled the team's exploits over the past 22...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | November 27, 2012
In most of corporate America, you write the press release when your creation is finished. But at Amazon, you write it before you've even begun.Wired From ACM Careers | November 27, 2012
When Willis Whitfield invented the modern-day cleanroom 50 years ago, researchers and industrialists thought it was too good to be true. But within a few years...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | November 27, 2012
Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 21, 2012
When you look in a mirror, you see an image of yourself in reverse. But one odd mirror invented by mathematics professor R. Andrew Hicks at Drexel University shows...Drexel niversity From ACM Careers | November 19, 2012
A growing number of schools are joining the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement to better integrate students' smartphones, tablets, and laptops into their classrooms...Indiana State University From ACM Careers | November 13, 2012
Titan, a Cray XK7 system installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the 40th edition of the twice-yearly TOP500...TOP500.org From ACM Careers | November 12, 2012
When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...VentureBeat From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012
Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and...NASA From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
In 1998, Steve Jobs told Fortune: "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have." He shut down Apple's long-term research lab division to prove...Technology Review From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory last month launched the Titan supercomputer, which will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last...Oak Ridge National Laboratory From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
Allen Calvin earned a doctorate in experimental psychology, was a consulting professor at Stanford University, and is currently the president of Palo Alto University...CNET From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
While Google's self-driving car is getting heaps of attention, a lesser-known effort that would employ Silicon Valley technologies to make regular automobiles safer...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | November 7, 2012
Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...Bloomberg From ACM News | November 7, 2012