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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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When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...Financial Times From ACM News | February 10, 2016
The rain began to fall as Joe Giaime and I scrambled down a lonely rise, back toward the observatory's main building.Ars Technica From ACM Careers | February 9, 2016
A DARPA-funded research team has created a novel neural-recording device that can be implanted into the brain through blood vessels, eliminating the need for invasive...DARPA From ACM Careers | February 9, 2016
Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a statistical theory for the toughness of polycrystalline graphene and found that it is indeed strong, but that its toughness...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM Careers | February 9, 2016
Scientists have discovered a way to generate very low-resistance electric current by separating left- and right-handed particles in a semi-metallic material. The...Brookhaven National Laboratory From ACM Careers | February 8, 2016
Twenty-five years ago U.S.-led Coalition forces launched the world’s first "space war" when they drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.Scientific American From ACM News | February 8, 2016
When Jill Tarter first began to look for aliens, she drew looks askance from her friends and colleagues.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2016
A defining moment in modern biology occurred on July 24, 1978, when biotechnology pioneer Robert Swanson, who had recently co-founded Genentech, brought two young...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2016
Every day computers make many millions of electronic trades by performing delicate calculations aimed at eking out a tiny edge in terms of speed or efficiency.Technology Review From ACM News | February 4, 2016
On any given Sunday during football season, the N.F.L., a league that promotes itself as a standard-bearer of innovation, produces games that are analog at their...The New York Times From ACM Careers | February 4, 2016
Yesterday, the 46-year-old Google veteran who oversees its search engine, Amit Singhal, announced his retirement. And in short order, Google revealed that Singhal's...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 4, 2016
Transparent metamaterials under development could make possible computer chips and interconnecting circuits that use light instead of electrons to process and transmit...Purdue niversity From ACM Careers | February 2, 2016
Innovator: Thomas Schmickl
Age: 46
Zoology professor and founder of the Artificial Life Laboratory at the University of Graz in AustriaBloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 29, 2016
Origami, or paper folding, may soon provide a foundation for antennas that can be reconfigured to operate at different frequencies, microfluidic devices whose properties...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | January 28, 2016
UCLA scientists have found an effective way to place molecules in the specific patterns they need within tiny nanoelectronic devices.niversity of California Los Angeles From ACM Careers | January 27, 2016
Some problems remain daunting and impractical for the most powerful modern supercomputers. Now, researchers have developed a new approach that would use quantum...MIT News From ACM Careers | January 25, 2016
Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google's Solve for X conference...The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 22, 2016
Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by applying...MIT News From ACM Careers | January 20, 2016