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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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Hoping to revive their struggling company, Advanced Micro Devices executives vowed Thursday to more quickly make microchips that are power-efficient, low-cost,...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Careers | February 3, 2012
Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices.Oak Ridge National Laboratory From ACM Careers | February 1, 2012
University of Delaware professor Ioannis Poulakakis is using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop systematic control strategies for four-legged robots...niversity of Delaware From ACM Careers | January 31, 2012
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has chosen Globus Online as the data movement solution for the Blue Waters supercomputer, set for deployment...Globus Online From ACM Careers | January 25, 2012
Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity—an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search...I Programmer From ACM News | January 24, 2012
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.The New York Times From ACM News | January 23, 2012
Georgia Tech researchers have studied the movements of snakes to create more efficient search-and-rescue robots.Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | January 19, 2012
A branch of the National Academy of Sciences reported Wednesday that federal safety regulators lack the expertise to monitor vehicles with increasingly sophisticated...The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 19, 2012
Every entrepreneur hopes to start the next big thing. But sometimes the first try doesn’t go as planned.The New York Times From ACM Careers | January 18, 2012
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction.The Atlantic From ACM News | January 17, 2012
The Georgia Tech Research Institute has received a $1.5 million contract from DARPA to produce an online environment that would let multiple design teams work together...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | January 17, 2012
Seven identical robots created and built at the UW will be flown to campuses across the country, where they will provide the first common research platform to develop...niversity of Washington From ACM Careers | January 13, 2012
Intel application engineer Travis Bonifield has been working closely with Hawking to communicate with the world for a decade.Intel Free Press From ACM Opinion | January 10, 2012
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | January 6, 2012
It was a tough year for Nintendo. Revenue at the venerable game company plunged. Its stock price was cut in half. And initial sales of its new 3DS handheld game...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | January 3, 2012
Rex Walheim is an astronaut. He's gone to space three times, including on the last flight of the space shuttle. He has spent an accumulated 36 hours outside the...BoingBoing From ACM Careers | December 16, 2011
How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | December 13, 2011
For the past 21 years thousands of astronomers around the world in over 35 countries have been engaged in Hubble Space Telescope research, and the 10,000th Hubble...Space Telescope Science Institute From ACM Careers | December 7, 2011
Lee Redden, 26, a Ph.D. student in engineering at Stanford, recently decided to shelve his education and help found a start-up company.The New York Times From ACM Careers | December 6, 2011
Although mainframes remain a key component of enterprises, many mainframe personnel are getting ready to retire and there are not enough students interested in...InfoWorld From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2011