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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 new Appcelerator/IDC survey shows that mobile developers view Google and its broad range of assets as key to implementing their social strategies in 2012. The...Appcelerator Inc. From ACM Careers | March 20, 2012
A recent Computerworld survey of 357 IT professionals found that 46 percent of respondents are noticing a shortage of Cobol programmers, and 50 percent said the...Computerworld From ACM TechNews | March 19, 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
Georgia Tech's Logistic Regression Markov Chain method has a history of accuracy as a predictor of the men's NCAA basketball tournament. It predicts this year's...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | March 15, 2012
Australian research scientist Jack da Silva used computer simulations to discover that a human immunodeficiency virus, even at an early phase of infection, evolves...Genetics Society of America From ACM Careers | March 15, 2012
High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck...Paul Hyman From ACM News | March 13, 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
Paul Davison is in a hurry. Not just to board the plane that's about to take him to his father's retirement party in San Diego, or to get through the talking points...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | March 8, 2012
Two small asteroids now bear the names of two towering figures in computing history, Unix inventors Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.CNET From ACM Careers | March 8, 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
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
It's a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., and there goes David Cheriton, navigating the Silicon Valley suburb's tony downtown on his bike.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 6, 2012
Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA.Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA From ACM Careers | March 5, 2012
In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...Wired From ACM News | March 2, 2012
Computer software that models and responds to students' cognitive and emotional states — including frustration and boredom — has been developed by researchers from...niversity of Notre Dame From ACM Careers | March 2, 2012
Microsoft's new version of Windows is fantastic, jarring, and risky at the same time. Fantastic because it marks the clearest sign yet that Microsoft is embracing...Slate From ACM Opinion | March 1, 2012
Google Inc. has dramatically expanded its presence in Manhattan in the past year, adding roughly 750 people to its outpost in 2011 in the most prominent example...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | February 29, 2012
This year at the CanSecWest security conference, we will once again sponsor rewards for Google Chrome exploits. This complements and extends our Chromium Security...The Chromium Blog From ACM Careers | February 29, 2012
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 28, 2012