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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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Humans can distinguish among approximately 10,000 relatively high-level visual categories, but we can discriminate among a much larger set of visual stimuli referred...Research at Google From ACM News | July 24, 2013
Several congressional panels have rejected the Obama administration's plan to significantly realign the federal government's $3-billion annual budget for programs...Science From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2013
The academic world is in upheaval over MOOCs: massive open online courses that make university lectures available to tens of thousands of students at a time.Nature From ACM Careers | July 24, 2013
At Microsoft's recent Faculty Summit, Bill Gates expressed his views on a range of topics, including education, patents, computer science, and machine learning....GigaOm.com From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2013
Beyond the security gate at the Johnson Space Center’s 1960s-era campus here, inside a two-story glass and concrete building with winding corridors, there is a...The New York Times From ACM News | July 23, 2013
An international team of information scientists has begun a study to investigate and prevent "reference rot," the dead hyperlinks that fail to connect to 30 percent...Los Alamos National Laboratory From ACM Careers | July 23, 2013
In the field of planet hunting, Geoff Marcy is a star. After all, the astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley found nearly three-quarters of the...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | July 23, 2013
NASA's Space Apps Challenge recently became the world's largest open hackathon, with over 8,000 participants spanning 44 countries.Wired From ACM Opinion | July 23, 2013
C-level titles top the list of highest paid IT jobs, while technical support positions dominate the low end of the pay scale, according to new salary data from...CIO From ACM CareerNews | June 21, 2013
In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...The Associated Press From ACM News | July 22, 2013
Every morning this week, Justin Spring and Sean Yoon got up and drove down a bumpy dirt road. They piled their packs onto their backs and hiked 45 minutes up a...GigaOm From ACM News | July 22, 2013
NASA has selected 12 proposals, including two from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | July 22, 2013
The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center has been named the 2013 'Green' Data Center of the Year at the inaugural Datacenter Dynamics North American Awards.National Center for Atmospheric Research From ACM Careers | July 22, 2013
The U.S. Navy is turning to the Information Technology and Web Science Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to prepare a select group of U.S. Navy officers...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM Careers | July 22, 2013
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2013
Thanks to newer browsers and greater bandwidth, there's been an explosion of new Web fonts—tens of thousands of them over the last decade.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2013
The hottest nightclub in this factory town is a neon-encrusted dive down the road from the industrial park where iPhones are made 24 hours a day.The New York Times From ACM Careers | July 18, 2013
Networks of spherical nanoparticles embedded in elastic materials may make the best stretchy conductors yet, engineering researchers at the University of Michigan...niversity of Michigan From ACM Careers | July 17, 2013
University of Washington engineers found in a recent study that the user's experience could be key to creating an authentication system that doesn't rely on passwords...niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | July 17, 2013
Finding a job is not easy but a range of smartphone and web apps are designed to customize employment searches and even provide information on the competition.Reuters From ACM Careers | July 17, 2013