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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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Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | December 22, 2014
New York City's subways—the nation's biggest mass transit network—serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to...The Associated Press From ACM News | December 22, 2014
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a model that organizations can use to address and respond to large-scale data breaches. They found that...University of Arkansas, Fayetteville From ACM Careers | December 22, 2014
Cheap, mass-produced semiconductors have transformed our world, with smartphones, laptops, sensors and tablets, all connected to big cloud computing systems.The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 19, 2014
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 19, 2014
A team at Cornell University has developed a way to encode data without current in a room-temperature magnetoelectric memory device, a breakthrough that could...Cornell niversity From ACM Careers | December 19, 2014
A new study from MIT neuroscientists has found that a latest generation of computer neural networks can identify visual objects as well as the primate brain.MIT News From ACM Careers | December 19, 2014
CompuGirls is an NSF-funded organization based at Arizona State University that provides girls aged eight to 12 from under-resourced schools with activities to....S. National Science Foundation From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2014
Scientists wish they could ask a computer a question and have it respond with an answer presented in an easy-to-understand picture. A U.S. National Science Foundation...University of Illinois at Chicago From ACM Careers | December 18, 2014
At the G20 Summit-sponsored Women in Leadership conference in Brisbane, Australia in November, leaders pledged to reduce the gender gap in workforce participation...EE Times From ACM TechNews | December 17, 2014
Universities are stepping up efforts to create "spinouts," or business startups born from some of the cutting-edge research of their students or faculty.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | December 17, 2014
Space is big. Really big. And not just in terms of the mind-boggingly vast distances between the stars and planets out there in the Universe at large.BBC News From ACM Opinion | December 17, 2014
The strength of connections between languages in a network are better predictors of a language's global influence than either the population or the wealth of...MIT News From ACM Careers | December 17, 2014
Florida State University is set to launch a new program that will have students excited about their instructors droning on and on. A new course, Introduction to...Florida State University From ACM Careers | December 17, 2014
Evolutionary geneticist Tom Gilbert was sipping a coffee in Madrid five years ago when an idea hit him—literally. "A pigeon crapped on me," he says, "and I thought...Nature From ACM Careers | December 16, 2014
Through a project supported by DARPA, Sandia National Labs is developing technology to improve the endurance of legged robots to help them operate for long periods...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | December 16, 2014
Patent trolls: They're a huge suck on the economy, eating up untold millions in legal fees and deliberately suing innocent companies just because they're flush....The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | December 16, 2014