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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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Despite women's gains in educational attainment (they are now the majority of college graduates), an ugly gender pay gap persists.Forbes From ACM Careers | November 28, 2012
It was supposed to be a big moment for the two brothers—both University of Virginia engineering students—the culmination of months of designing and refining.Wired From ACM Careers | November 28, 2012
The computer science field remains dominated by men. The U.S. National Science Foundation says the number of women graduating with computer science degrees has...SA Today From ACM TechNews | November 28, 2012
When Randy Adams, 60, was looking for a chief-executive officer job in Silicon Valley last year, he got turned down from position after position that he thought...Reuters From ACM Careers | November 27, 2012
How do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company?The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 26, 2012
Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel of Microsoft, weighs in on what academia and industry can do to produce more graduates with the IT skills...The Wall Street Journal From ACM CareerNews | October 18, 2012
Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 21, 2012
Silicon Valley remains the world's most attractive spot for technology start-ups with other locations around the world catching up, according to a report published...Reuters From ACM Careers | November 21, 2012
Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation...The New York Times From ACM Careers | November 19, 2012
Approximately 1,400 middle schoolers will explore the universe with research-grade robotic telescopes over the next three years, thanks to a $1.6 million program...niversity of Chicago From ACM Careers | November 19, 2012
Through a five-year, $6.24 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | November 16, 2012
Building on its success in drawing more women and under-represented minority students to study computer science, UMass Amherst has won a $6.24 million grant from...niversity of Massachusetts Amherst From ACM Careers | November 16, 2012
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 12 grants, totaling more than $3 million, in new investments in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation From ACM Careers | November 14, 2012
A growing number of schools are joining the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement to better integrate students' smartphones, tablets, and laptops into their classrooms...Indiana State University From ACM Careers | November 13, 2012
The Business-Higher Education Forum, a network of executives and college presidents, is focusing on programs to promote deeper learning and science, technology,...Education Week From ACM TechNews | November 12, 2012
Kevin Korb, from Monash University's Clayton School of Information Technology, will be discussing what stage artificial intelligence has reached in an upcoming...Monash niversity From ACM Careers | November 12, 2012
How a teacher in El Salvador became an advocate of massive open online courses, and why hardly anyone listens to him yet. From ACM Careers | November 12, 2012
When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...VentureBeat From ACM Opinion | November 8, 2012
Many universities are reaching out to community colleges to set up programs that encourage science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Inside Higher Ed From ACM TechNews | November 7, 2012
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