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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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It was the end of a long combat patrol near a district called Adhamiyah, in northwest Baghdad, in the fall of 2008.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 6, 2015
To get his Ph.D., MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west.The Washington Post From ACM News | November 5, 2015
Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords." So goes the joke every time artificial intelligence threatens to supersede humans in another job.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2015
A Florida State University researcher has discovered an artificial material that mimics photosynthesis and potentially creates a sustainable energy source.Florida State University From ACM Careers | November 3, 2015
Nestled inside the massive MicroBooNE detector lie 50 circuit boards packed with custom-built microelectronics designed to operate while immersed in inert liquid...Brookhaven National Laboratory From ACM Careers | November 3, 2015
"Prevalent stereotypes describe software engineers as socially inept introverts that are single-mindedly focused on computers," writes psychologist Timo Gnambs...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | November 3, 2015
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the General Theory of Relativity, the most beautiful theory in the history of science, and in its honor we should take...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2015
"I like to drive cars," says Mark Reuss, product development chief at General Motors, "so this is a little funny."Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 29, 2015
Berkeley Lab researchers have found a way to store natural gas as a transportation fuel, which could help make the driving range of an adsorbed-natural-gas (ANG)...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM Careers | October 29, 2015
A petition calling for President Obama to support strong encryption and "reject any law, policy or mandate" that would undermine digital security reached 100,000...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | October 28, 2015
Scientists may have discovered a link between key components of the "electron density wave" state and the pseudogap phase in a high-temperature superconductorBrookhaven National Laboratory From ACM Careers | October 27, 2015
When Google-parent Alphabet Inc. reported eye-popping earnings last week its executives couldn’t stop talking up the company's investments in machine learning and...Bloomberg From ACM News | October 26, 2015
A general-purpose optimization algorithm described in the winner of the best-student-paper award at the FOCS 2015 symposium promises order-of-magnitude speedups...MIT News From ACM Careers | October 23, 2015
The levitating technology Marty McFly encountered in his jaunt through Oct. 21, 2015 during the 1989 film "Back to the Future II" isn't as far-fetched as it might...Ithaca College From ACM Careers | October 21, 2015
The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when the Apollo...Capital Gazette From ACM Careers | October 19, 2015