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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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Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...Popular Mechanics From ACM Opinion | March 13, 2014
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...Stanford Report From ACM News | March 13, 2014
I once worked with Steven Spielberg on the development of Minority Report, derived from the short story by Philip K. Dick featuring a future society that uses surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2014
Often, when there's talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money.Nieman Journalism Review From ACM News | March 6, 2014
Since 2001, the Human Dynamics Laboratory at the MIT Media Lab has used digital technologies—from home-brewed portable sensors to cellphone call records—to try...MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2014
An Internet search engine developed specifically for schools is being tested as a way to increase reading abilities in challenged students and help motivate intellectual...niversity of Alabama Huntsville From ACM Careers | February 28, 2014
What started as a one-man boycott of the annual RSA Conference here in response to the confab'sparent company's ties to the National Security Agency has begun to...CNET From ACM Careers | February 28, 2014
Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...Time From ACM News | February 28, 2014
There are many conflicting opinions about what troubled Web giant Yahoo must do to turn itself around, but critics and company leaders at least agree on one thing...Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 11, 2014
Any aspiring science fiction writer looking for a good protagonist could do worse than ripping off the Wikipedia page for Demis Hassabis.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | January 28, 2014
Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 24, 2014