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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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A new book, Algorithmic Composition, serves as a guide for musicians and computer scientists interested in learning to use algorithms to create music.Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute From ACM Careers | October 8, 2013
Twitter, poised to make its splashy entrance on Wall Street, has helped define modern social networking.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 7, 2013
The widespread mourning of Tom Clancy's death last week is clear testament to a man who managed to have a significant impact across a range of media.Salon From ACM Opinion | October 7, 2013
It sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.Nature From ACM News | October 4, 2013
David Moser, the academic director at CET Beijing Chinese Studies, remembers the bad old days of Mandarin-learning methodology in the 1980s and 1990s.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | October 4, 2013
Even as he installed the landmark camera that would capture the first convincing evidence of dark energy in the 1990s, Tony Tyson, an experimental cosmologist now...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | October 3, 2013
In 2004, Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos decreed that any software built by an Amazon engineer must be shared with every other engineer at the company.Wired From ACM Careers | October 3, 2013
Determined to carve out a niche for itself in the low-power device market, Intel on Thursday announced a partnership to bring its small Quark processors to the ...CNET From ACM Careers | October 3, 2013
A team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a new approach that marries computer vision and hardware optimization...University of California, San Diego From ACM Careers | October 3, 2013
Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a...Quanta Magazine From ACM News | October 2, 2013
If creationists in Texas get their way, high-school students throughout the U.S. could soon be reading biology textbooks that falsely cast doubt on the scientific...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | October 2, 2013
Almost immediately after receiving their new school-issued iPads this fall, students in Indiana and in California (and probably elsewhere) managed to bypass the...The Atlantic From ACM Careers | October 2, 2013
In 1983, intrigued by an article on fractals, I wrote a program to display the Mandelbrot set on my family's TRS-80 Color Computer.CNET From ACM Opinion | October 2, 2013
The recent revelation that the National Security Agency collects the personal data of United States citizens, allies and enemies alike has broken the traditional...Politico From ACM Opinion | October 1, 2013
If there's anything observers can say with certainty, it's that Silicon Valley remains an anomalous industry.Fortune/CNN From ACM Careers | October 1, 2013