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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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Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavement and uprooting trees to make room for a...The Washington Post From ACM News | July 26, 2013
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook believes that "over the arc of time" China is a huge opportunity for his pathbreaking company. But time looks to be on the side of...Reuters From ACM Careers | July 26, 2013
The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 26, 2013
In roughly the past two years, Target Corp., General Electric Co., Ford Motor Co., Johnson & Johnson, and other big companies have opened outposts in or near Silicon...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | July 26, 2013
Georgia Institute of Technology is about to take a step that could set off a broad disruption in higher education: It's offering a new master's degree in computer...Slate From ACM Careers | July 24, 2013
Earlier this year, MIT researchers developed a way to easily and efficiently edit the genomes of living cells. Now, the researchers have discovered key factors...MIT News Office From ACM News | July 24, 2013
When Barnes & Noble announced, a couple of weeks ago, that its Nook division lost almost five hundred million dollars last year and that its C.E.O. was resigning...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | July 24, 2013
Humans can distinguish among approximately 10,000 relatively high-level visual categories, but we can discriminate among a much larger set of visual stimuli referred...Research at Google From ACM News | July 24, 2013
The academic world is in upheaval over MOOCs: massive open online courses that make university lectures available to tens of thousands of students at a time.Nature From ACM Careers | July 24, 2013
Beyond the security gate at the Johnson Space Center’s 1960s-era campus here, inside a two-story glass and concrete building with winding corridors, there is a...The New York Times From ACM News | July 23, 2013
In the field of planet hunting, Geoff Marcy is a star. After all, the astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley found nearly three-quarters of the...The Washington Post From ACM Careers | July 23, 2013
NASA's Space Apps Challenge recently became the world's largest open hackathon, with over 8,000 participants spanning 44 countries.Wired From ACM Opinion | July 23, 2013
In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...The Associated Press From ACM News | July 22, 2013
Every morning this week, Justin Spring and Sean Yoon got up and drove down a bumpy dirt road. They piled their packs onto their backs and hiked 45 minutes up a...GigaOm From ACM News | July 22, 2013
NASA has selected 12 proposals, including two from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM Careers | July 22, 2013
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2013
Thanks to newer browsers and greater bandwidth, there's been an explosion of new Web fonts—tens of thousands of them over the last decade.GigaOm From ACM Opinion | July 18, 2013