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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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Depending on how one defines its birth, Hadoop is now 10 years old. In that decade, Hadoop has gone from being the hopeful answer to Yahoo’s search-engine woes...GigaOm From ACM News | March 8, 2013
For a man that made his career out of helping millions of people find their way around, Lars Rasmussen is frank about his own navigational shortcomings.BBC News From ACM Opinion | March 8, 2013
As 2,700 people settled into their seats on Friday morning at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, author Michael Lewis surveyed the scene from the dais and...MIT News Office From ACM Careers | March 7, 2013
When Peiter Zatko, the security researcher and pioneering hacker known as Mudge, joined the federal government several years ago to help run a DARPA research program...Threatpost From ACM Careers | March 7, 2013
The U.S Federal Trade Commission said today that it is cracking down on marketers that are allegedly bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted on...CNET From ACM News | March 7, 2013
At 16, Isabelle Aleksander spends hours writing computer code and plans a career in engineering. Her latest passion is the Raspberry Pi, a low-cost, credit-card...The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 7, 2013
A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | March 7, 2013
Privacy is no longer just a regulatory headache. Increasingly, Internet companies are pushing each other to prove to consumers that their data is safe and in their...The New York Times From ACM Careers | March 5, 2013
A car that tells your insurance company how you're driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your air conditioner...Associated Press From ACM News | March 4, 2013
In setting the nation on a course to map the active human brain, President Obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than ending the war in Afghanistan...The New York Times From ACM News | March 1, 2013
Celebrated political forecaster Nate Silver has shot to fame by letting the data speak loudly about elections.MIT News Office From ACM Opinion | March 1, 2013
Friendster is a social network that was founded in 2002, a year before Myspace and two years before Facebook.Technology Review From ACM Careers | February 28, 2013
Sergey Brin waltzed in for a try and threw up a score of 250,953, first time out of the gate and with Google Glass still perched on his face.Wired From ACM Careers | February 28, 2013
On a sunny day at a picnic table in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky glanced down at his wristwatch. He wasn't checking the time, he was checking his email.Associated Press From ACM Careers | February 28, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University researcher Kurt Luther has developed Pipeline, an open source tool designed to help leaders finish complex, collaborative projects by...Carnegie Mellon News From ACM TechNews | February 27, 2013
For nearly 50 years, coins were the currency in New York’s subway and bus system. Tokens carried the next 40 years, until the MetroCard first slid into riders’...The New York Times From ACM News | February 27, 2013