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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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Diagrams of simple machines—a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever—appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (science, technology, engineering, and...Slate From ACM Careers | November 24, 2015
At least 23 former Disney IT workers have filed complaints with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) over the loss of their jobs to foreign...Computerworld From ACM Careers | November 24, 2015
MIT's Rising Stars workshop helps female electrical engineering and computer science graduate students and postdocs build a professional network with a focus on...MIT EECS From ACM Careers | November 19, 2015
Yale University will expand its computer science faculty by more than 25 percent, from 20 to 26 professors, and has made the department a part of its engineering...Yale News From ACM Careers | November 17, 2015
A framework co-developed by a Binghamton University researcher could help future scientists improve their understanding of all types of networks, from social media...Binghamton niversity From ACM Careers | November 13, 2015
When the director of a research institute asked his Twitter followers for a practical way to dig out promising candidates from the hundreds of applications sitting...Nature From ACM Careers | November 12, 2015
Théo Négri, a young software engineer from France, had come up with so many novel ideas at his job at an Internet start-up in San Francisco that the American entrepreneur...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 11, 2015
Almost all college students have a cellphone. They use them an average of eight to 10 hours a day and check them an average of every 15 to 20 minutes while they're...NPR From ACM Careers | November 10, 2015
Leonard Reinsfelder's wife found a note on her car as she was leaving a shopping center one day: "Have your husband give us a call. We think we could use him."The Washington Post From ACM Careers | November 10, 2015
The IT workers at Cengage Learning in the company's Mason, Ohio, offices learned of their fates game-show style.Computerworld From ACM Careers | November 9, 2015
Europe's troubled Human Brain Project (HBP) has secured guarantees of European Commission financing until at least 2019—but some scientists are still not sure that...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
In 2012, Emily Leproust was trying to raise money to start Twist Bioscience, a company that aimed to synthesize DNA more quickly and more cheaply than existing...Nature From ACM Careers | November 4, 2015
"Prevalent stereotypes describe software engineers as socially inept introverts that are single-mindedly focused on computers," writes psychologist Timo Gnambs...Ars Technica From ACM Careers | November 3, 2015
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the General Theory of Relativity, the most beautiful theory in the history of science, and in its honor we should take...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2015
Penn State has developed a technology that works with faculty to automatically build complete textbooks from open resources on the Web according to topics and keywords...Pennsylvania State University From ACM Careers | October 21, 2015
In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult...The New York Times From ACM News | October 21, 2015
Cornell social scientists found that women hold no hiring edge when pitted against slightly more accomplished men for faculty positions in engineering, economics...Cornell niversity From ACM Careers | October 20, 2015