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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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New algorithms designed by researchers at UC Berkeley and UMass allow a robot to do laundry without any specific knowledge of what it has to wash.U.S. National Science Foundation From ACM Careers | February 5, 2015
With NSF support, Iowa State University is making a version of ISEAGE (the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment) software technology available...Iowa State University From ACM Careers | February 5, 2015
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare...The Guardian From ACM News | February 4, 2015
With its recent investment in Stack Exchange, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz now counts three significant companies in its portfolio that serve the broad and...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering.Nature From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Computers are able to use monkey facial patterns to correctly identify and distinguish individuals within species. The findings suggest that machine learning can...New York University From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
Privacy law expert Neil M. Richards argues in a new book that digital technologies should give more attention to the important human values that required hard fights...Washington niversity in St. Louis From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
New research shows that graphene and related 2-D materials could be used to create the first generation of light-emitting electronic devices that are thin, flexible... From ACM Careers | February 4, 2015
The artificial-intelligence industry, a field that conjures up images of humanoid robots and self-aware computer systems, is making a comeback at Silicon Valley...Bloomberg From ACM Careers | February 3, 2015
China had 649 million Internet users by the end of 2014, with 557 million of those using handsets to go online, said a government report on Tuesday, as the world's...Reuters From ACM News | February 3, 2015
Controversy has erupted over China's highest science prize for 2014. Critics are blasting the winning project, on network computing, as not innovative and undeserving...ScienceInsider From ACM Careers | February 3, 2015
In the last three months of 2014, the Associated Press published 3,000 articles on the earning reports of U.S. companies. Previously it could publish only 300.The Washington Post From ACM News | February 2, 2015
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories say better materials and manufacturing techniques for thermoelectric nanowires could allow carmakers to harvest power...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | February 2, 2015
A team of astronomers using the NSF's Green Bank Telescope and NASA's Deep Space Network radar transmitter has released the most detailed radar images yet of asteroid...National Radio Astronomy Observatory From ACM Careers | February 2, 2015
When Microsoft stock was at a record high in 1999, and its market capitalization was nearly $620 billion, the notion that Apple Computer would ever be bigger—let...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 30, 2015
Researchers have unveiled a new design that in experiments extended the superposition time of a promising type of qubit a hundredfold, which could lead toward practical...MIT News From ACM Careers | January 30, 2015
Nineteen ninety-five was the inaugural year of the 21st century, a clear starting point for contemporary life.Wired From ACM Careers | January 30, 2015
Just four pieces of information are enough to identify 90 percent of the people in a data set recording three months of credit-card transactions by 1.1 million...MIT News From ACM Careers | January 30, 2015
Charles H. Townes, a visionary physicist whose research led to the development of the laser, making it possible to play CDs, scan prices at the supermarket, measure...The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 29, 2015