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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
From ACM Careers Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and… BNN | February 28, 2024
Do Women Place Less Importance on Their Careers Than Men? Professor Rebuts Misconceptions
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Do Women Place Less Importance on Their Careers Than Men? Professor Rebuts Misconceptions

There is a pre-existing assumption that women place less importance on their careers than men. A new study by an Ithaca College professor challenges this assumption... Ithaca College
From ACM Careers | October 27, 2015
Unraveling the Complex, Intertwined Electron Phases in a Superconductor
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Unraveling the Complex, Intertwined Electron Phases in a Superconductor

Scientists may have discovered a link between key components of the "electron density wave" state and the pseudogap phase in a high-temperature superconductor Brookhaven National Laboratory
From ACM Careers | October 27, 2015
Former NSA Head's Cyber-Security Startup Raises $32.5 million
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Former NSA Head's Cyber-Security Startup Raises $32.5 million

Former U.S. National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander's cyber security startup, IronNet Cybersecurity Inc, said on Monday it had raised $32.5 million in... Reuters
From ACM Careers | October 26, 2015
Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines
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Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines

When Google-parent Alphabet Inc. reported eye-popping earnings last week its executives couldn’t stop talking up the company's investments in machine learning and... Bloomberg
From ACM News | October 26, 2015
Faster Optimization
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Faster Optimization

A general-purpose optimization algorithm described in the winner of the best-student-paper award at the FOCS 2015 symposium promises order-of-magnitude speedups... MIT News
From ACM Careers | October 23, 2015
­p to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car or Smartphone
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­p to 27 Seconds of Inattention After Talking to Your Car or Smartphone

It takes a driver up to 27 seconds to regain full attention after issuing voice commands to a smartphone or car infotainment system while driving, University of... ­niversity of ­tah
From ACM Careers | October 22, 2015
Flying Robobees Will Soon Have Laser Eyes
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Flying Robobees Will Soon Have Laser Eyes

Flying insects designed for agriculture and disaster relief will rely on technology used by driverless cars. University at Buffalo
From ACM Careers | October 22, 2015
You Wouldn't Think It, But Typeface Piracy Is a Big Problem
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You Wouldn't Think It, But Typeface Piracy Is a Big Problem

It's safe to assume that most people have no idea that fonts, like music or movies, are protected by intellectual property laws, they usually come with a hefty... Wired
From ACM News | October 21, 2015
Where Are the Hoverboards? Ithaca College Professor Says Not Too Far Off
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Where Are the Hoverboards? Ithaca College Professor Says Not Too Far Off

The levitating technology Marty McFly encountered in his jaunt through Oct. 21, 2015 during the 1989 film "Back to the Future II" isn't as far-fetched as it might... Ithaca College
From ACM Careers | October 21, 2015
Penn State Develops Technology to Create Robot-Written Textbooks
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Penn State Develops Technology to Create Robot-Written Textbooks

Penn State has developed a technology that works with faculty to automatically build complete textbooks from open resources on the Web according to topics and keywords... Pennsylvania State University
From ACM Careers | October 21, 2015
Museum Specimens Find New Life Online
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Museum Specimens Find New Life Online

In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult... The New York Times
From ACM News | October 21, 2015
Tiny Dancers: Can Ballet Bugs Help US Build Better Robots?
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Tiny Dancers: Can Ballet Bugs Help US Build Better Robots?

A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University studied the hopping skills and landing patterns of spider crickets in the hope of paving the way for a new generation... Johns Hopkins University
From ACM Careers | October 20, 2015
New Study Explores Gender Bias in Academic Hiring
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New Study Explores Gender Bias in Academic Hiring

Cornell social scientists found that women hold no hiring edge when pitted against slightly more accomplished men for faculty positions in engineering, economics... Cornell ­niversity
From ACM Careers | October 20, 2015
How One Austrian Student Took On American Tech Companies Over Privacy—and Won
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How One Austrian Student Took On American Tech Companies Over Privacy—and Won

Earlier this month the European Union's top court struck down a major trade agreement that thousands of companies use to transfer Europeans' personal data to the... The Washington Post
From ACM Careers | October 20, 2015
Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation
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Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation

The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo... Capital Gazette
From ACM Careers | October 19, 2015
Smarter Lenses
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Smarter Lenses

A newly launched mobile eye-test device could lead to prescription virtual-reality screens. MIT News
From ACM Careers | October 19, 2015
Code Is Key to Successful Economic Study Replication, Researcher Says
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Code Is Key to Successful Economic Study Replication, Researcher Says

An assistant professor at Cornell University says her recent study was successfully replicated by the Federal Reserve because her code was available to other researchers... Cornell ­niversity
From ACM Careers | October 19, 2015
IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip

In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way... Technology Review
From ACM News | October 16, 2015
Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work
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Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work

For all the jobs that machines can now do—whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food—they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social... The New York Times
From ACM Careers | October 16, 2015
Think Twice About Android Root
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Think Twice About Android Root

A study by UC Riverside engineers quantifies the amount of Android root exploits available in commercial software, and shows that they can be easily abused. ­niversity of California, Riverside
From ACM Careers | October 16, 2015
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