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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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Several novice programmers who signed up for a free machine-learning class on Coursera have gone on recently to win predictive-modeling competitions.GigaOm From ACM Careers | October 15, 2012
In the 1980s, Sony co-founder Akio Morita fired a verbal missile across the Pacific at Silicon Valley: Japan's supremacy in business and technology would overwhelm...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 15, 2012
On a Friday morning in late August, six weeks into her new job as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer was brainstorming about how to make the company innovative again.Fortune From ACM Careers | October 12, 2012
Dr. Alvin Rajkomar was doing rounds with his team at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center when he came upon a puzzling case: a frail, elderly...The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 12, 2012
Want a job at a digital company based in New York City? You should have been looking earlier this year, says a headhunting shop.AllThingsD From ACM Careers | October 12, 2012
Staff turnover in IT departments averaged 5.2% this year, which is below the average measured over the past seven years, according to an annual report by the...Computerworld From ACM Careers | October 12, 2012
What are the next Big Things in science and technology? Teleportation? Unlimited clean Energy? The scientists and researchers at DARPA and the White House Office...Networkworld From ACM Careers | October 11, 2012
Hack into Google Chrome, and you could win $60,000, at least if you do it through Google's Pwnium 2 competition.CNET From ACM Careers | October 11, 2012
IT workers who work remotely are actually more engaged and more committed to their work than their counterparts who work in the office. Not only that, they also...Harvard Business Review From ACM CareerNews | August 24, 2012
Most people look at the cross section of a human bone and see an incomprehensible tangle of sponge-like scaffolding. Jeffrey Brennan sees a secret mathematical...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 9, 2012
Many technology industry officials are worried about a growing skills gap in education and training in the field of data analysis. The Register From ACM TechNews | October 5, 2012
When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up.Harvard Business Review From ACM Careers | October 5, 2012
Ask a group of data scientists the toughest part of their job, and many will probably tell you–it's not the math but the work required to turn raw data into something...GigaOm From ACM Careers | October 5, 2012
If Annie Cheung's parents are looking for someone to blame for derailing her from medical school, they might point a finger or two at Cisco.San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | October 5, 2012
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dorm room, hoping to see what his classmates were up to on campus. The following eight years...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | October 4, 2012
Julie Medeiros thinks her taste in fashion is worth something. Turns out it is: about $50 a month.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 4, 2012
Every Wednesday, a bar in central Tokyo hosts an unusual speed-dating event. There are drinks and plenty of coy looks. But the young people at the bar aren’t here...The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 3, 2012
NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science announced on Wednesday the launch of the Big Data Challenge, a series of...NASA From ACM Careers | October 3, 2012
Ginni Rometty's first customer conference as CEO of IBM was an unusual affair, especially by Big Blue's buttoned-up standards.Fortune From ACM Opinion | October 3, 2012
Sys admins are from Mars, developers are from Venus, and legal is from hell. Here's how to heal friction among IT factions.InfoWorld From ACM Careers | October 3, 2012