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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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Research has found that the "math gender gap" — the relative underperformance of girls at math — is much wider in societies with poor rates of gender equality.Queen Mary niversity of London From ACM Careers | May 17, 2016
The Pentagon asked hackers to take a crack at its servers, and in response 1,400 hackers found 90 ways in, according to a tweet from the CEO of HackerOne on Friday...Newsweek From ACM Careers | May 16, 2016
About 35 high-school students sit at neatly arranged rows of tables in the university's gym. Another 115 college-level contestants surround the high schoolers.CNET From ACM Careers | May 16, 2016
In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...The New York Times From ACM News | May 13, 2016
After selling my startup, Shopkick, to SK Planet in 2014, and handing over my CEO role a year later, I packed up my 1- and 3-year-old sons and my wife Angel, and...Recode From ACM Opinion | May 13, 2016
The largest-ever genetics study in the social sciences has turned up dozens of DNA markers that are linked to the number of years of formal education an individual...Nature From ACM Careers | May 13, 2016
India's scientific publications grew 13.9%, as against the global average of 4.1%, between 2009 and 2013, according to a new report. But the paper output has not...Live Mint From ACM Careers | May 13, 2016
The recipe for peach Melba is thought to date back to 1893, when Nellie Melba and Auguste Escoffier were rubbing elbows at the Savoy Hotel, in London.The New Yorker From ACM Careers | May 11, 2016
It's been more than 30 years since the invention of 3-D printing, and yet in some ways the technology is still a frontier of unexplored potential.MIT News Office From ACM Careers | May 11, 2016
A new study from a Georgia Tech-Cornell University team shows that the research faculty path isn't the only reason students pursue a postdoc.Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | May 9, 2016
Silicon Valley is coming to terms with a new type of disruption: Donald Trump as the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee. Recode From ACM Careers | May 6, 2016
Many families introduce their children to the world of work before they bring up the idea of entrepreneurship. But you don't need to limit your children’s earning...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | May 6, 2016
Twitter's gloomy quarterly report last week unsettled investors. They might have anticipated trouble more than a year ago had they noticed one key indicator.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | May 4, 2016
Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. But the Silicon Valley...NPR From ACM Opinion | May 3, 2016
The £61-million (US$89-million) National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, UK, has been open for little more than a year. But a parliamentary...Nature From ACM Careers | May 3, 2016
Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...The New Yorker From ACM News | May 2, 2016
It's getting more and more crowded on baseball’s bleeding edge. As sabermetrics has expanded to swallow new disciplines and data sets,1 the number of quantitative...FiveThirtyEight From ACM Careers | April 29, 2016
When Andrew Ng joined Google from Stanford University in 2011, he was among a trickle of artificial-intelligence (AI) experts in academia taking up roles in industry...Nature From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016
A project to provide tablet computers loaded with literacy applications to young children in economically disadvantaged communities has reported encouraging results...MIT News From ACM Careers | April 27, 2016