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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
From ACM Careers Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and… BNN | February 28, 2024
Researchers Model Birth of ­niverse in Large Cosmological Simulation
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Researchers Model Birth of ­niverse in Large Cosmological Simulation

Researchers are sifting through an avalanche of data produced by one of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed, led by scientists at the U.S. Department... Argonne National Laboratory
From ACM Careers | October 30, 2015
Can Detroit Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car?
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Can Detroit Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car?

"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
On the Road to Ang Vehicles
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On the Road to Ang Vehicles

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
Change the Shape, Change the Sound
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Change the Shape, Change the Sound

Computer scientists have demonstrated that sound can be controlled by 3-D-printed shapes.  Columbia University
From ACM Careers | October 29, 2015
Behind the Scenes of the Internet's First Football Game
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Behind the Scenes of the Internet's First Football Game

At 5:05 AM Sunday, long before the rest of Sunnyvale, California, will wake up, Yahoo's control room is packed. Wired
From ACM Careers | October 28, 2015
Unraveling the Complex, Intertwined Electron Phases in a Superconductor
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Unraveling the Complex, Intertwined Electron Phases in a Superconductor

Scientists may have discovered a link between key components of the "electron density wave" state and the pseudogap phase in a high-temperature superconductor Brookhaven National Laboratory
From ACM Careers | October 27, 2015
Faster Optimization
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Faster Optimization

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
Flying Robobees Will Soon Have Laser Eyes
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Flying Robobees Will Soon Have Laser Eyes

Flying insects designed for agriculture and disaster relief will rely on technology used by driverless cars. University at Buffalo
From ACM Careers | October 22, 2015
Tiny Dancers: Can Ballet Bugs Help US Build Better Robots?
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Tiny Dancers: Can Ballet Bugs Help US Build Better Robots?

A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University studied the hopping skills and landing patterns of spider crickets in the hope of paving the way for a new generation... Johns Hopkins University
From ACM Careers | October 20, 2015
Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation
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Seeing Stars, Again: Naval Academy Reinstates Celestial Navigation

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
IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip

In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way... Technology Review
From ACM News | October 16, 2015
Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work
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Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work

For all the jobs that machines can now do—whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food—they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social... The New York Times
From ACM Careers | October 16, 2015
Bu Research Could Revolutionize Flexible Electronics, Solar Cells
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Bu Research Could Revolutionize Flexible Electronics, Solar Cells

Researchers have demonstrated an eco-friendly process that enables unprecedented spatial control over the electrical properties of graphene oxide, a two-dimensional... S­NY Binghamton ­niversity
From ACM Careers | October 15, 2015
One Direction: Researchers Grow Nanocircuitry with Semiconducting Graphene Nanoribbons
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One Direction: Researchers Grow Nanocircuitry with Semiconducting Graphene Nanoribbons

In a development that could revolutionize electronic ciruitry, a research team has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the... Argonne National Laboratory
From ACM Careers | October 14, 2015
Pilots Can't Stop Cockpit Video Forever
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Pilots Can't Stop Cockpit Video Forever

It was after 11 p.m. on March 30, 2013, when the Alaska Department of Public Safety helicopter lifted off near Talkeetna, north of Anchorage, after rescuing a stranded... Bloomberg Businessweek
From ACM Careers | October 9, 2015
Electronics Get a Power Boost with the Addition of Simple Material
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Electronics Get a Power Boost with the Addition of Simple Material

Penn State materials scientist have given the workhorse transistor a big boost using a new technique to incorporate vanadium oxide into the device. Penn State Materials Research Institute
From ACM Careers | October 9, 2015
New Programming Approach Seeks to Make Large-Scale Computation More Reliable
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New Programming Approach Seeks to Make Large-Scale Computation More Reliable

The GVR project looks to deny the physical limitations that threaten the progressive computing improvements described by Moore's Law. ­niversity of Chicago
From ACM Careers | October 8, 2015
New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend
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New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend

Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal
From ACM Careers | October 7, 2015
Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.
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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.

At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer. The New York Times
From ACM Careers | October 6, 2015
Double the (quantum) Fun
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Double the (quantum) Fun

A detailed analysis of the electrical characteristics of a tiny transistor made from two quantum dots could help researchers design better devices to manipulate... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | October 6, 2015
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