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Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
BNN| February 28, 2024
A team of Duke University researchers won the 2018 PoetiX Literary Creative Turing Test contest for an algorithm that composed the most "human-like" sonnets.
The Chronicle From ACM TechNews | January 2, 2019
The portrayal of STEM jobs in U.S. film and television largely reinforces the narrative that scientists are white men, according to a study by the Geena Davis Institute...Nature From ACM Careers | November 26, 2018
Apps marketed to children 5 and younger deploy potentially manipulating tactics to deliver ads to children, raising questions about the ethics of child software...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | October 31, 2018
To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape.
The New York Times From ACM Careers | September 27, 2018
President Donald Trump's Tuesday morning attack on Google for delivering "rigged" search results met with a swift denial from the company, but Trump's threat to...Politico From ACM News | August 29, 2018
Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting...The New York Times From ACM News | August 13, 2018
Kids who played a video game designed to train empathy showed greater connectivity in brain networks related to empathy and perspective taking, a new study shows...niversity of Wisconsin-Madison From ACM Careers | August 10, 2018
A robotic arm mixes the cocktails at Ratio in downtown Shanghai, where customers choose how many shots of alcohol they want and the specific combination of liquors...China Daily From ACM Careers | July 20, 2018
Video games should be used to promote student motivation, engagement, and ultimately learning, the same as any other effective learning facilitator, says Texas...Texas A&M niversity From ACM Careers | July 16, 2018
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominated NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for its...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | July 13, 2018
While many technology experts and scholars have concerns about the social, political, and economic fallout from the spread of digital activities, they also tend...Pew Research Center From ACM Careers | July 11, 2018
A group of scientists at Berkeley Lab bested two dozen other teams in a months-long, data-driven scavenger hunt for simulated radioactive materials in a virtual...Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory From ACM Careers | July 10, 2018
Three Stanford computer science students developed a model that can detect humor in spoken language and predict when a conversational agent should respond with...Stanford niversity From ACM Careers | June 15, 2018
Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry as a co-founder of Atari and helped create the hit console game...The New York Times From ACM Careers | June 6, 2018
Lane Tech College Prep High School students, in collaboration with the University of Chicago, have installed sensor boxes at Wrigley Field to measure sound levels...Chicago Tribune From ACM Careers | May 22, 2018
Microsoft Corp. is making a videogame controller designed for people with disabilities, the latest in a growing number of industry efforts to accommodate players...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | May 18, 2018
Doris C. Rusch of DePaul University's Deep Games Lab helped create games such as "Blood Myth," which examines sickle cell anemia; "Zombie Yoga" about anxiety; and...DePaul niversity From ACM Careers | May 9, 2018
At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...The New York Times From ACM News | May 7, 2018