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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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Over their lifetimes, graduates with majors in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can expect an earnings premium of $1.5 million over and...Science From ACM Careers | June 26, 2014
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers used a technology-enhanced glove to help people learn how to read and write Braille, even if they weren't paying attention...Georgian Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | June 24, 2014
These days I write more than I code, but one of the things I miss about programming is the coder's high: those times when, for hours on end, I would lock my vision...Slate From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2014
David Steurer of Cornell University has been awarded a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship to support research which might settle a long-standing controversy...Cornell niversity From ACM Careers | June 20, 2014
China has vastly expanded higher education over the past three decades—in 1982, less than 1 percent of China’s twenty-somethings had attended college; by 2010,...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | June 18, 2014
In the late 1990s a young entrepreneur named Tony Fadell tried to persuade Stewart Alsop, a journalist who had recently become a venture capitalist, to invest in...Fortune From ACM Careers | June 13, 2014
After years spent encouraging engineering students to focus on software and digital electronics, some people say the day of reckoning appears to be drawing near...EE Times From ACM Careers | June 13, 2014
Selecting graduate students into STEM fields based on an assessment of their character rather than relying heavily on GRE test scores would significantly improve...Vanderbilt University From ACM Careers | June 13, 2014
Enough with complaining that young people these days are addicted to their phones. The question you should be asking is: What do they know that you don't?The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 11, 2014
What do you get when you combine three students, one computer, five hours, and one problem set? For three University of Chicago students, it's a chance to compete...niversity of Chicago From ACM Careers | June 10, 2014
"Learn to Code!" This imperative to program seems to be everywhere these days. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg recently donated ten million dollars to Code.org,...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2014
STEM graduate enrollments among U.S. citizens and permanent residents in 2012 fell for the first time in the last decade, while enrollments for temporary visa holders...Campus Technology From ACM TechNews | June 6, 2014
Getting more women and underrepresented minorities into computer science remains a priority for a growing number of nonprofit organizations that have sprung up...PBS NewsHour From ACM CareerNews | May 28, 2014
The mantra "publish or perish" is drilled into every early-career scientist—and for good reason, a computer model suggests.Nature From ACM Careers | June 4, 2014
Students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are making a handsome average salary of $89,800.Forbes From ACM Careers | June 4, 2014
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...MIT News Office From ACM News | June 4, 2014
Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | June 4, 2014
As any historian, psychologist, sociologist, or scientist will tell you, the truth of an idea has very little to do with how fast it spreads and how well it's believed...Slate From ACM Opinion | June 2, 2014