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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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A few years ago, when Greg Martin was in his mid 20s and teaching a computer security course for NASA engineers, he stumbled on an arcane bit of information that...NBC News From ACM Careers | December 31, 2014
It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.It's been a little while since we checked in with Team Astrobotic.CNET From ACM News | December 29, 2014
The Daily Paywall is a new website that's loaded with tens of thousands of pirated articles from some of the world's top paywalled newspapers, and its proprietor...Motherboard From ACM Careers | December 23, 2014
Every day, researchers add hundreds of new papers to ArXiv, the massive public database of scientific writing and research.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | December 22, 2014
New York City's subways—the nation's biggest mass transit network—serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to...The Associated Press From ACM News | December 22, 2014
Cheap, mass-produced semiconductors have transformed our world, with smartphones, laptops, sensors and tablets, all connected to big cloud computing systems.The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 19, 2014
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | December 19, 2014
Scientists wish they could ask a computer a question and have it respond with an answer presented in an easy-to-understand picture. A U.S. National Science Foundation...University of Illinois at Chicago From ACM Careers | December 18, 2014
Space is big. Really big. And not just in terms of the mind-boggingly vast distances between the stars and planets out there in the Universe at large.BBC News From ACM Opinion | December 17, 2014
Evolutionary geneticist Tom Gilbert was sipping a coffee in Madrid five years ago when an idea hit him—literally. "A pigeon crapped on me," he says, "and I thought...Nature From ACM Careers | December 16, 2014
Until Andre Geim, a physics professor at the University of Manchester, discovered an unusual new material called graphene, he was best known for an experiment...The New Yorker From ACM News | December 15, 2014
A decade ago, data analysis was a chore. Workers poured figures into Excel and then spent hours searching for patterns.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 15, 2014
A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these "massive open online courses" stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 15, 2014
Maybe you read Gone Girl because Amazon recommended it; watched Breaking Bad because Netflix suggested you'd like it; even met the love of your life because OKCupid...New Scientist From ACM Careers | December 12, 2014