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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
Building Electronics From the Ground ­p
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Building Electronics From the Ground ­p

The University of South Carolina's Chuanbing Tang is a research leader in the move to fabricate microelectronics with a "bottom-up" approach. ­niversity of South Carolina
From ACM Careers | January 15, 2013
What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?
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What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web?

I couldn't help thinking of John Le Carré's spy novels as I awaited my rendezvous with Jaron Lanier in a corner of the lobby of the stylish W Hotel just off Union... Smithsonian magazine
From ACM Opinion | January 3, 2013
Color-Sensing Toasters? A Student Reimagines the Home
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Color-Sensing Toasters? A Student Reimagines the Home

At 21, Basheer Tome has a rather well-defined notion of what he thinks the world needs: clever, useful, beautiful objects that elevate our homes well and truly... Bloomberg Businessweek
From ACM Careers | January 2, 2013
Top Tech 2013
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Top Tech 2013

IEEE Spectrum looks at technology initiatives that will make news in the coming year. IEEE Spectrum
From ACM Careers | December 21, 2012
Do We Live in a Computer Simulation? Researchers Say Idea Can Be Tested
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Do We Live in a Computer Simulation? Researchers Say Idea Can Be Tested

A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the possibility that the universe might be a computer simulation run by our descendants. Now, a team of physicists... ­niversity of Washington
From ACM Careers | December 11, 2012
Tiny Compound Semiconductor Transistor Could Challenge Silicon's Dominance
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Tiny Compound Semiconductor Transistor Could Challenge Silicon's Dominance

MIT researchers develop the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever built. MIT News
From ACM Careers | December 10, 2012
Neil Degrasse Tyson Helps His New 'bud' Superman Get a Glimpse of Home
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Neil Degrasse Tyson Helps His New 'bud' Superman Get a Glimpse of Home

DC Comics, Tyson explains, approached him for permission to use the Planetarium—as well as his likeness—in a story where Superman witnesses the destruction of Krypton... NPR
From ACM Opinion | December 7, 2012
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University R&D Hit a High in 2011, But Is Threatened by the Fiscal Cliff

While we love to focus on the entrepreneurs and startups that bring new technologies to market, so much of the groundbreaking innovation that has driven the U.S... Technology Review
From ACM Careers | November 29, 2012
Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race
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Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race

Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and... NASA
From ACM Careers | November 8, 2012
DARPA Throws Down Gauntlet to Human-Style Robots
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DARPA Throws Down Gauntlet to Human-Style Robots

The DARPA Robotics Challenge, one of the most rigorous tests of robotic ability ever conceived, kicked off last week. The contest sets teams of engineers from around... New Scientist
From ACM Careers | November 1, 2012
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Apple R&D Spending Up Nearly 40 Percent in 2012

Apple increased the amount it spent on research and development during 2012, though it remained a fraction of its overall spending. CNET
From ACM Careers | October 31, 2012
5 Cool Things at MIT Media Lab
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5 Cool Things at MIT Media Lab

You probably expect all the latest and greatest high-tech gear to be out in force at the MIT Media Lab innovation complex. And you’d be right. Holograms? Check.... GigaOm
From ACM Careers | October 26, 2012
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Nasa Selects Early-Stage Innovation Proposals From 10 ­niversities

NASA has selected 10 university-led proposals for study of innovative, early-stage space technologies designed to improve shielding from space radiation, spacecraft... NASA
From ACM Careers | October 24, 2012
Salt Power: Watt's Next in Rechargeable Batteries?
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Salt Power: Watt's Next in Rechargeable Batteries?

Sodium could be an effective, inexpensive, and virtually inexhaustible substitute for lithium in rechargeable batteries, but it has a drawback that Michigan Tech's... Michigan Technological ­niversity
From ACM Careers | October 19, 2012
Study Confirms Magnetic Properties of Silicon Nano-Ribbons
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Study Confirms Magnetic Properties of Silicon Nano-Ribbons

Nano-ribbons of silicon configured so the atoms resemble chicken wire could hold the key to ultrahigh density data storage and information processing systems... Oak Ridge National Laboratory
From ACM Careers | October 18, 2012
Freezing Electrons in Flight
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Freezing Electrons in Flight

Using the world's fastest laser pulses, which can freeze the ultrafast motion of electrons and atoms, UA physicists have caught the action of molecules breaking... The ­niversity of Arizona
From ACM Careers | October 16, 2012
Another Advance on the Road to Spintronics
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Another Advance on the Road to Spintronics

Berkeley Lab Researchers unlock ferromagnetic secrets of promising materials. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
From ACM Careers | October 15, 2012
'invisibility' Could Be a Key to Better Electronics
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'invisibility' Could Be a Key to Better Electronics

An MIT team applies technology developed for visual "cloaking" to enable particles to "hide" from passing electrons, which could lead to more efficient thermoelectric... MIT News Office
From ACM Careers | October 12, 2012
What Are Grand Technology and Scientific Challenges for the 21st Century?
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What Are Grand Technology and Scientific Challenges for the 21st Century?

What are the next Big Things in science and technology? Teleportation? Unlimited clean Energy? The scientists and researchers at DARPA and the White House Office... Networkworld
From ACM Careers | October 11, 2012
To This Agency, There's Only One Way to Operate: Precisely
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To This Agency, There's Only One Way to Operate: Precisely

David Wineland is the American half of the scientific duo celebrating the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday. NPR
From ACM News | October 10, 2012
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