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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 efforts are underway to help students make sense of the array of online courses, degrees, and certification options. For example, the Balloon online tool...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | March 18, 2014
Research vice presidents at some computing giants, such as Microsoft and IBM, rule over divisions housed in dedicated facilities carefully insulated from the rat...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2014
Japan faced a full-on cyber attack across government departments on Tuesday in a drill aimed at bolstering national security as the country gears up to host the...World Bulletin From ACM Careers | March 18, 2014
Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.Slate From ACM Careers | March 18, 2014
A team at Georgia Tech has increased the power output of a triboelectric nanogenerator and is now looking to commercialize the technology in products that could...American Chemical Society From ACM Careers | March 17, 2014
The uncertainties surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s disappearance are enormous, but naval strategists have been unraveling lost-at-sea mysteries as far...The New York Times From ACM News | March 17, 2014
MIT researchers have developed a self-contained autonomous soft robotic "fish" that can convulse its body to change direction in just a fraction of a second, almost...MIT News From ACM Careers | March 17, 2014
Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.Science Magazine From ACM Careers | March 14, 2014
Marking Pi Day, a Texas Tech University alumnus has created a baking pan in the shape of the pi symbol. Texas Tech University From ACM Careers | March 14, 2014
An ultra-fast and ultra-small optical switch has been invented that could advance the day when photons replace electrons in the innards of consumer products ranging...Vanderbilt University From ACM Careers | March 14, 2014
Sequencing a person's entire genome can reveal potentially life-saving information about the presence of mutations associated with diseases.Nature From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
Long before he was the two-hundred-and-second richest person on the planet, Jan Koum was just another curious kid with a wardialer.Forbes From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
The Cisco Meraki office in Mission Bay, San Francisco, is 40 paces from the water, and just as nice as Google's.The New York Times Magazine From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 13, 2014
Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...Popular Mechanics From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2014
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...Stanford Report From ACM News | March 13, 2014
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 13, 2014
Big data has evolved a lot of the past few years; from a happy buzzword to a hated buzzword, and from a focus on volume to a focus on variety and velocity.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2014
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to develop a framework that can be used by all industries to understand how to use and measure...IDG News Service From ACM TechNews | March 12, 2014