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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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The number of research doctorate degrees awarded by U.S. institutions in 2013 grew by 3.5 percent over the previous year, according to a new report from the National...U.S. National Science Foundation From ACM Careers | May 5, 2015
The U.S. government is tightening the reins on the number of employees and contractors with access to classified information.Ars Technica From ACM Careers | May 5, 2015
Four years ago, Foxconn founder Terry Gou envisaged an army of one million robots would now be working the assembly lines at the world's biggest contract electronics...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Careers | May 5, 2015
The ANSEP program leverages state and federal dollars to help Native Alaskan students succeed in college math and science courses in an effort to increase their...U.S. National Science Foundation From ACM Careers | May 4, 2015
In the late 1980s, Joseph W. Lechleider came up with a clever solution to a puzzling technical problem, making it possible to bring high-speed Internet service...The New York Times From ACM News | May 4, 2015
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 1, 2015
Robots are goosing the productivity of the world's factories, but does that mean fewer jobs for humans?The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 1, 2015
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reaffirmed its ban on research that involves gene editing of human embryos. In a statement released on 29 April,...Nature From ACM Careers | April 30, 2015
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $632,000 scholarship grant to Stevens Institute of Technology to help fund liberal arts graduates in the software...Stevens Institute of Technology From ACM Careers | April 30, 2015
Facebook, it seems, is unstoppable. The social publishing site, just 11 years old, is now the dominant force in American media.The Atlantic From ACM Careers | April 29, 2015
On the night of May 4, 2007, a tornado classified as a 5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale reached the town of Greensburg, Kansas.Ars Technica From ACM Careers | April 29, 2015
The Pentagon’s new 33-page cybersecurity strategy is an important evolution in how America proposes to address a top national security threat. It is intended to...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 28, 2015
In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts cannot agree on whether the work was ethical. They also disagree...Nature From ACM News | April 27, 2015
A report by a committee of MIT researchers and research administrators examining how funding cutbacks will affect the future of scientific studies in the United...MIT News From ACM Careers | April 27, 2015
A patented passive cooling system for computer processors developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville could save U.S. consumers more than $6.3 billion...University of Alabama Huntsville From ACM Careers | April 27, 2015
Somewhere near Iceland, a new NATO member, Berlya is under cyber-attack, most likely launched from its arch-rival Crimsonia, although the Berlyans can’t be completely...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | April 24, 2015
Chris Roberts knows a lot about hacking planes. But not because he's trying to make them fall out of the sky.The Washington Post From ACM Careers | April 24, 2015
A research team has developed a computational model that aims to automatically suggest cancer diagnoses by learning from thousands of data points from past pathology...MIT CSAIL From ACM Careers | April 24, 2015