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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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Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the...Caltech News From ACM Opinion | March 20, 2014
The Cleveland Cavaliers are having a rocky season—currently, they're on the outside looking in at an Eastern Conference playoff berth.Slate From ACM Careers | March 20, 2014
This year's winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced yesterday as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 19, 2014
We use Jonathan Ive's products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex.Time From ACM News | March 18, 2014
Research vice presidents at some computing giants, such as Microsoft and IBM, rule over divisions housed in dedicated facilities carefully insulated from the rat...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2014
A team at Georgia Tech has increased the power output of a triboelectric nanogenerator and is now looking to commercialize the technology in products that could...American Chemical Society From ACM Careers | March 17, 2014
Sequencing a person's entire genome can reveal potentially life-saving information about the presence of mutations associated with diseases.Nature From ACM Careers | March 13, 2014
How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery.Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 13, 2014
Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...Popular Mechanics From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2014
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...MIT News Office From ACM News | March 13, 2014
I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2014
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...Nature From ACM News | March 11, 2014
In the last few days we've seen a spate of headlines like 2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers, all occasioned by an Observer...Alan Winfield From ACM Opinion | March 10, 2014
It's been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined...Technology Review From ACM Careers | March 10, 2014
University of Utah electrical engineers used an inexpensive inkjet printer to produce microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information.niversity of tah From ACM Careers | March 10, 2014
We hear a lot about the future of computing in the cloud, but not much about the efficiency of the data centers that make the cloud possible.Stanford News Service From ACM News | March 7, 2014
Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.Nieman Journalism Review From ACM News | March 6, 2014
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2014