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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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The bouncy beeps of Pac-Man. The percussive build-up in Legend of Zelda. The effusive gibberish of The Sims. The sounds in videogames tell us to speed up, start...Wired From ACM Careers | June 13, 2017
A team of researchers has developed a new approach to "deep learning" computations using light instead of electricity, which they say could vastly improve the speed...MIT News From ACM Careers | June 13, 2017
The clanking, hulking factory in a rural patch of northwest Germany that produces 22-ton combine harvesters has lately been turning out machines with a technical...Bloomberg From ACM News | June 13, 2017
The opening chords of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" rocked a hotel ballroom in New York City as a nattily dressed British man strode onstage...Newsweek From ACM News | June 12, 2017
To distill a clear message from growing piles of unruly genomics data, researchers often turn to meta-analysis—a tried-and-true statistical procedure for combining...Quanta Magazine From ACM Opinion | June 12, 2017
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are designing software for a DARPA-funded processor currently in development that can tackle unstructured data...Pacific Northwest National Laboratory From ACM Careers | June 12, 2017
In the minds of many in Silicon Valley and in the auto industry, it is inevitable that cars will eventually drive themselves.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2017
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam...Reuters From ACM Careers | June 8, 2017
Few U.S. industries are growing as fast as health care, but the big public-cloud companies—Amazon.com, Microsoft, Google—have struggled to crack the $3.2 trillion...BloombergBusinessweek From ACM Careers | June 8, 2017
A researcher at UT Dallas has designed a spintronic switch made solely from carbon that might one day replace the silicon transistors that power today's electronic...niversity of Texas at Dallas From ACM Careers | June 7, 2017
Apple's iMac updates and new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company's World Wide Developers keynote. But tucked away in the middle were a short...Wired From ACM Careers | June 6, 2017
In the world's wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving...Nature From ACM Careers | June 6, 2017
IBM and its research partners have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5-nanometer chips, paving the way...IBM From ACM Careers | June 5, 2017
Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...The New York Times From ACM News | June 5, 2017
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 2, 2017
The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm."
Ars Technica From ACM News | June 1, 2017
A team of scientists at Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory harnessed a spontaneous self-alignment mechanism to produce a thin film with millions....S. DOE Office of Science From ACM Careers | May 31, 2017