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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 Radia Perlman attended MIT in the late '60s and '70s, she was one of just a few dozen women (about 50) out of a class of 1,000.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2014
The normally humdrum world of IT security is heating up, and not just because of comedian Stephen Colbert's controversial closing keynote at last week's RSA Conference...Fortune From ACM Careers | March 4, 2014
Shortly after Tim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | March 4, 2014
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...The Guardian From ACM News | March 3, 2014
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...Xinhua News Agency From ACM News | February 28, 2014
What started as a one-man boycott of the annual RSA Conference here in response to the confab'sparent company's ties to the National Security Agency has begun to...CNET From ACM Careers | February 28, 2014
Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...Time From ACM News | February 28, 2014
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer...Nature From ACM News | February 27, 2014
David Heinemeier Hansson is a book author, a public speaker, a photographer, a father, a race car driver, and the founder and CTO of the productivity software firm ...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | February 27, 2014
NASA is partnering with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to develop and apply new technology and products to better manage and monitor the state's...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 26, 2014
Bitcoin suffered a major setback Tuesday as the website of Mt.Gox, the once dominant trading platform for the virtual currency, was all but shut down.The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | February 25, 2014
Last June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google—i.e., the guy in charge of hiring...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014
Following the Snowden snooping revelations, there is growing interest in a range of mobile phone products with one central selling point: privacy.Reuters From ACM Careers | February 24, 2014
For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated, competitive free market.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014
Last September, the Times reported that Voyager 1, the hardy spacecraft launched in 1977, had exited the solar system and entered the interstellar void.The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | February 24, 2014
In 2006, Scott Hassan, a prolific software engineer, started a research lab dedicated to robotics called Willow Garage.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | February 21, 2014
U.S. cybersecurity officials have been much more skeptical about international cooperation than their Cold War counterparts were.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2014
Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today. Koum, cofounder Brian Acton and venture capitalist...Forbes From ACM Careers | February 21, 2014