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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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Silicon Valley is world-renowned for the Nobel Prize winners and MacArthur "geniuses" behind theoretical breakthroughs in science, technology, engineering, and...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | June 11, 2013
Researchers looked for clues about online learning by analyzing the pageviews, clickstreams, and discussion threads of students taking 6.002x, the free online version...MIT News From ACM Careers | June 11, 2013
In 2008 U.S. troops in Iraq discovered that Shi’ite insurgents had figured out how to tap and record video feeds from overhead American drones. Now you too can...Wired From ACM News | June 10, 2013
In 2012, education startups attracted millions of students—and a surge of interest from universities and the media—by offering massive open online courses, or MOOCs...Technology Review From ACM News | June 10, 2013
If you walk the halls at MIT, you may notice a lot of students wearing T-shirts bearing the Dropbox logo. It's a simple design—an opened box—but one that carries...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | June 6, 2013
Georgia Tech is rolling out an program that makes it possible for students to earn a three-year master's degree in computer science entirely online — and for...Time From ACM Careers | June 6, 2013
A 16-year-old programmer named Ash Bhat is attending Apple's WWDC next week for free. How? He created an iOS app that earned him one of 150 scholarships.CNET From ACM Careers | June 5, 2013
Two University of Virginia researchers offer a solution to the potential for widespread cheating in massive open online courses, an obstacle to the courses' widespread...University of Virginia From ACM Careers | June 5, 2013
It was a Sunday afternoon in SoHo and while most New Yorkers were having brunch, Makeda Peters and her boyfriend were on a street corner craning their necks at...The New York Times From ACM News | June 3, 2013
Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn.NBC News From ACM Careers | June 3, 2013
It's first period at Harlem's Cristo Rey high school, a private Catholic school for motivated low-income kids.Smithsonian magazine From ACM News | May 31, 2013
A few years ago, the National Security Agency, the country's top electronic spy agency, pondered a question with national security implications.The Salt Lake Tribune From ACM Careers | May 31, 2013
With 1.3 billion people, a quickly expanding urban economy, and rising rates of Internet and smartphone penetration, China generates an immense amount of data annually...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 30, 2013
Online learning startup Coursera has formed partnerships with 10 public universities and university systems to develop courses that can be taken for credit either...CNet From ACM Careers | May 30, 2013
The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...CNET From ACM News | May 29, 2013
Students did equally well on a test whether reading from a digital book or a printed one, according to research by Jim Johnson, an Indiana State University doctoral...Indiana State University From ACM Careers | May 28, 2013
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even...HPC Wire From ACM News | May 24, 2013
When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported $100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn’t even available to the public.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 24, 2013
Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the...The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 24, 2013
The Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, plans to offer the first online Master of Science degree in computer science that can be earned via a... From ACM TechNews | May 22, 2013