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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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Cash-strapped cities are turning to an unusual source to improve their online services on the cheap: helpful hackers, who use city data to create tools tracking...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | August 13, 2013
Two million bucks doled out in increments of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars is no quick way to make a fortune.CNET From ACM Careers | August 13, 2013
The demand for cybersecurity professionals is outpacing other technology jobs by a wide margin, according to a Semper Secure survey. Cybersecurity professionals...CIO From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2013
Winnie Callahan, director for business, education, government, and health innovations at the University of Southern California Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute...GovInfoSecurity.com From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2013
Phil Zimmermann might be a technologist, but he tends to get philosophical when it comes to the issues of privacy and security and how they intersect with our society...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2013
One in five science students surveyed by Nature and Scientific American has participated in a MOOC — and most would do so again.Scientific American From ACM Careers | August 12, 2013
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a sensor device that converts mechanical pressure — from a signature or a fingerprint — directly into light signals that...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | August 12, 2013
U.S.-based workers show more initiative and are more innovative and more understanding of the business than offshore workers, according to a new study. These qualities...Patrick Thibodeau From ACM CareerNews | August 1, 2013
If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool...Wired From ACM News | August 9, 2013
Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gained fame in the 1990s for co-founding iRobot, an MIT spinoff that brought the world the Roomba and other innovative, helpful...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | August 9, 2013
The U.S. National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent...Reuters From ACM News | August 9, 2013
Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...CNET From ACM News | August 9, 2013
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor and Council co-Chair of the international Research Data Alliance Francine Berman joined with Google Vice President Vint...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM Careers | August 9, 2013
Rodney Brooks' startup, Rethink Robotics, is producing robots that can adapt to manufacturing tasks and the factory environment. From ACM Careers | August 9, 2013
A newly published study found that positive comments on a website create an illusory snowball effect, while negative responses get cancelled out.MIT News From ACM Careers | August 9, 2013
As computers have matured over time, the human brain has no way of keeping up with silicon's rapid-fire calculating abilities.Scientific American From ACM News | August 8, 2013
Owners of Bigshot's device need to assemble its parts in a specific sequence to make it work. An online guide explains the science behind them.BBC News From ACM News | August 8, 2013